Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996), advocate of armed self-defense in the Civil Rights Movement, hunted by the FBI since fleeing Monroe, North Carolina in 1961, after years in exile in Cuba and China, is interviewed by Robert Carl Cohen in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania in 1968.
BLACK CRUSADER – 2008 Illustrated Edition, (498 Pages, B&W Photos, is now available from www.radfilms.com).
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Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996), advocate of armed self-defense in the Civil Rights Movement, hunted by the FBI since fleeing Monroe, North Carolina in 1961, after years in exile in Cuba and China, is interviewed by Robert Carl Cohen in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania in 1968.
BLACK CRUSADER – 2008 Illustrated Edition, (498 Pages, B&W Photos, is now available from www.radfilms.com). 
