Crusader In Exile: Robert F. Williams and the International Struggle for Black Freedom in America

@article{Rucker2006CrusaderIE,  title={Crusader In Exile: Robert F. Williams and the International Struggle for Black Freedom in America},  author={Walter C. Rucker},  journal={The Black Scholar},  year={2006},  volume={36},  pages={19 - 34},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:141760146}}
  • W. Rucker
  • Published1 June 2006
  • History, Political Science
  • The Black Scholar
THE COMMUNITY of Monroe, North Carolina was rocked in the period between 1958 and 1959 by four controversial court cases. The first, the infamous "Kissing Case," brought international attention to this small Southern railroad town. In October 1958, two African-American boys were arrested and charged with the attempted rape of a seven-year old white girl named Sissy Sutton. David Simpson, aged seven, and Hanover Thompson, aged nine, were involved in a playful contest in which Sissy voluntarily… 

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