Mae Mallory was an outspoken activist who promoted Black self-defense, Black self-determination, and global Black liberation. Then, the FBI framed her. Read her full story below, told by drashleyfarmer. ⬇️
white supremacist customs, a character trait that made her family concerned she “wasn’t going to make it so good in the South.” Fortunately, Mallory and her mother joined the thousands of Black Americans who migrated to New York City from the South during the Great Migration with hopes of gaining safety and security.in her early twenties. As she explained to Malika Lumumba, who interviewed her in 1970, the workplace radicalized her.
, a Black nationalist in Monroe. In August 1961, he and his wife, Mabel, agreed to help the Freedom Riders, a group of young, interracial activists who challenged segregation in southern cities and on interstate buses., from August 21 through 27. Williams explained that the local “racists had become emboldened” by the Freedom Riders' decision to protest peacefully and asked for support for the event. Fatefully, Mallory agreed and made the trip to Monroe.
On the first day of the protest, about 10 activists picketed in front of the courthouse without incident, as Raymond Arsenault recounted in. However, as Arsenault documented, tensions between the activists and a growing mob of white counterprotesters escalated as the week progressed. Confrontations reached a fever pitch on August 27, when the small group of activists arrived at the courthouse that afternoon.
They encountered the biggest white mob yet — a mix of white residents and Klansmen, some of whom hurled stones and insults.
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