The Roots of Black Radicalism

The radical view had its place in the south, going back to the slave revolts of Turner and Vessi I guess you could say. But it was in the northern and western cities that the drums of black radicalism really began to find their rhythm. In 1958 as Martin Luther King is writing his memoir of the Montgomery bus boycott, another black leader bubbled up to international attention. Robert F. Williams headed up the NAACP chapter of Monroe, North Carolina, which was a KKK stronghold.