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Mae Mallory (1929 - 2007) was a leading figure
in the Black liberation movement in the 1960s, and especially known
as a proponent of armed self-defense for Black people.
Life
She was raised in Macon, Georgia.
She was active improving public schools in New York City, in
1958 suing the school district over school zoning laws.[1]
She supported Robert F. Williams, NAACP member, and author of
Negroes with
Guns, in Monroe, North Carolina.[2] She
went to Ohio, and was supported by the Monroe Defense Committee,
and the Workers World Party,[3] in her
extradition and kidnapping trial. In 1961-5, she was jailed for
kidnapping, but was later released after the North Carolina Supreme
Court determined racial discrimination in the jury selection. [4][5] COINTELPRO tried to break
up the support group Committee to Support the Monroe
Defendants.[6]
She mentored Yuri Kochiyama.[7]
She was a friend of Madalyn Murray O'Hair.[8] On Feb.
21, 1965, she was present at the assassination of Malcolm X at the Audubon
Ballroom. In April 1965, she was instrumental in a Times Square protest
against the 1965
United States occupation of the Dominican Republic. On Aug. 8,
1966, she spoke at an anti-Vietnam War rally.[9]
She was an organizer of the Sixth Pan-African Congress held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1974.[10] In
1974, she lived in Mwanza, Tanzania.[11]
Her papers are held at Wayne State University.[12]
Works
- “Letters from Prison,” Mae Mallory. Monroe Defense Committee,
circa 1962.
References
- ^
Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, ed
(2003). Freedom north: Black
freedom struggles outside the South, 1940-1980. Palgrave
Macmillan. ISBN
9780312294687. http://books.google.com/books?id=JHPTPu8qFtkC&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=Mae+Mallory&source=bl&ots=QfZ4fq_1vN&sig=yME9lxK24qA5AqPEXusl7RiD_XU&hl=en&ei=PKX9SuC4L9OMnQe87JSUCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CCYQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=Mae%20Mallory&f=false.
- ^
Kevin Kelly Gaines (2006). American Africans in
Ghana: Black expatriates and the civil rights era. UNC
Press. ISBN
9780807830086. http://books.google.com/books?id=hfrHgQtslH4C&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=Mae+Mallory&source=bl&ots=FqNcMVv5qE&sig=histHee2SMNKjSVVa_q7Brdn9qA&hl=en&ei=Vqz9SsbdL5H8nAemnJyZCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA0Q6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q=Mae%20Mallory&f=false.
- ^
"After one year of hell Mae
Mallory is still a champion", Workers World, Oct. 26,
1962, A.T. Simpson
- ^
James Forman (1997). "Justice, Monroe Style".
The making of Black revolutionaries. University of
Washington Press. ISBN
9780295976594. http://books.google.com/books?id=Y2RIhBEy7dEC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=Mae+Mallory&source=bl&ots=kQ_ErakiAt&sig=mJ2i1G4tXTq0A8nnD583tpY-NrY&hl=en&ei=PKX9SuC4L9OMnQe87JSUCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA0Q6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=Mae%20Mallory&f=false.
- ^
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/0/8/4/4/p208440_index.html
- ^
Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall (2002).
The COINTELPRO papers:
documents from the FBI's secret wars against dissent in the United
States. South End Press. ISBN
9780896086487. http://books.google.com/books?id=DFlIcxsGUEIC&pg=PA51&dq=Mae+Mallory&ei=VbX9SvzGHJSMNsS3qPsO#v=onepage&q=Mae%20Mallory&f=false.
- ^
Diane Carol Fujino (2005). Heartbeat of struggle:
the revolutionary life of Yuri Kochiyama. University of
Minnesota Press. ISBN
9780816645930. http://books.google.com/books?id=b1oowDNmgpoC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=Mae+Mallory&source=bl&ots=ZJ1rO-rVPJ&sig=So-DEbfIFQopJNN_3PVt7UNKMpY&hl=en&ei=PKX9SuC4L9OMnQe87JSUCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBcQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=Mae%20Mallory&f=false.
- ^
Ann Rowe Seaman (2005). America's most hated
woman: the life and gruesome death of Madalyn Murray
O'Hair. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN
9780826416445. http://books.google.com/books?id=gRjTjvQLvvoC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=Mae+Mallory&source=bl&ots=cBn1KoMe5H&sig=agce5JUYR8mW7uZosMt_TvfvcSU&hl=en&ei=ZLP9Ss62OsuJnQeixsmbCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAzgy#v=onepage&q=Mae%20Mallory&f=false.
- ^
http://www.workers.org/2009/us/mae_mallory_0305/
- ^
"Some Personal Reflections on
the Sixth Pan-African Congress", Encyclopedia
Britanica
- ^
Black World, Oct
1974
- ^
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/2707
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