Mae Mallory Papers

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Mae Mallory Papers

1961-1967

https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/2707

Active in the civil rights movement, Mae Mallory advocated for African-Americans’ right to armed self-defense and was closely associated with NAACP member and author of “Negroes with Guns,” Robert F. Williams. Ms. Mallory was imprisoned for alleged kidnapping but was later released after the North Carolina Supreme Court determined racial discrimination in the selection of the jury. Ms. Mallory’s papers document her imprisonment and reflect her participation in the radical civil rights movement.

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Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

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Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

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Mallory, Mae, 1927-2007

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Mae Mallory was a civil rights activist known for her support of armed self-defense and school integration. She was the founder of the “Harlem 9,” a group of nine Black mothers formed to protest the inferior conditions of schools in New York City during the 1950’s. Mallory argued that despite the ruling of Brown vs. Board of Education, the zoning policies of the NYC Board of Education essentially ensured that segregation in the city was still very much in place. Formed in 1956, the Harlem 9’s ...