Biography
Mabel Williams was a civil-rights organizer who, with her husband Robert F. Williams, championed armed Black self-defense against white-supremacist violence in Monroe, North Carolina. After the couple sheltered a white couple during racial unrest in 1961, the Williams family fled the United States. They received political asylum in Cuba, where Mabel helped broadcast Radio Free Dixie and edit The Crusader, and later lived in China. Mabel returned to the United States in September 1969. The reviewed records establish Robert Williams’s arrest after his return but do not establish that Mabel was arrested, jailed or prosecuted in this matter.
