Radio Free Dixie tells the powerful story of a young activist, Robert F. Williams who at a very young age understood that the “American Dream” was not available to the people of his ethnicity as they were treated as second class citizens. Through the lenses of his young eyes, he witnessed the injustices Blacks of his hometown, Monroe, North Carolina were subjected to. The horror stories of white supremacists imposing fear, intimidating, and terrorizing Blacks shaped young Williams’ life and made him the force that white supremacists not just in Monroe but across the North Carolina needed to be reckoned with. Williams was a product of his era and was influenced by his uncle and the conditions surrounding him. In the “jungle called Dixie,” the political and social structure made it impossible for Blacks to advance politically, socially, and economically with few jobs available to black; a handful of Black voters; one percent of home ownership; no Blacks serving in the government of the county. Williams embarked on an odyssey to reverse the course of history and fought white supremacists for the rights of Black people in Monroe.…show more content… Tyson’s work revealed chilling accounts of discrimination, attempted murder, and violence against defenseless Blacks, which forced them to take arms to defend their properties, wives, daughters and sons against the barbarism of Southern white supremacists. Tyson’s analysis demonstrated the importance of the armed resistance or self-defense movement in the Civil Rights Movement. He also directs our attention to a troubling time in American history, exposing the hypocrisy of American political leaders, who while advocating democratic values abroad, denied Black people their basic rights at