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the world . In 1963, Armed Forces of national liberation of Venezuela (FALN)
blew up one of Rockefeller's oil refineries to protest the bombing of the
Birmingham Four (black
girls who were assassinated while in Sunday School)
during civil rights demonstration there . 19 Mao Tse Tung, chairman of the
Chinese Communist Party, called on all
progressive forces of the world to
support the Negro's struggle against racial discrimination in the United
States . 20 Malcolm X's break from the Nation of Islam with his popularizing
of the concept of armed self-defense and black nationalist, along with the
first urban rebellions in 1964, aligned the black liberation movement in
the U .S . with the world socialist revolution . Through his travels in Africa,
Malcolm met with African socialist leaders Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria
and Kwame Nkurmah of Ghana among others, made alliances of mutual
support
of the African revolution world-wide .
Williams called for armed revolution by Afro-Americans weekly through
his "Radio Free Dixie" from Havana, Cuba . In the February, 1964 issue of
his monthly newsletter, The Crusader ,
Williams raised the possibility of a
successful minority revolution by Afro-Americans employing urban guerrilla
tactics . 21
heel .
In his article, Williams asserted racism is America's Achilles
When the brutally oppressed Afro-American speaks of violent
resistance to savage racial dehumanization, he reaps a whirlwind
of reasons and causes why such a reaction supposedly is insane
and suicide . . . . The fact is that the racist oppressors of
the Afro-American realize the insecurity and vulnerability of
19 Interview with Armed Forces of National Liberation of Venezuela (FALN)
(Havana, Cuba, August, 1964) .
2DMao Tse Tung, Statement in Support of the American Negroes Struggle
Against Racial Discrimination in the United States Peking : Foreign
Languages Press, 1963) .
21 Robert Carl Cohen, Black Crusader (Secaucus, New Jersey : Lyle
Stuart, Inc ., 1972) . p . 212 .