Mae Mallory

Mae Mallory (1929–2007) was a Black liberation movement leader in the 1960s, and proponent of Black armed self-defense.^[1]

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.^[2]

She supported Robert F. Williams, NAACP member, and author of Negroes with Guns, in Monroe, North Carolina.^[3] She went to Ohio, and was supported by the Monroe Defense Committee, and the Workers World Party,^[4] 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. ^[5][6] COINTELPRO tried to break up the support group Committee to Support the Monroe Defendants.^[7]

She mentored Yuri Kochiyama.^[8]

She was a friend of Madalyn Murray O'Hair.^[9] 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.^[10]

She was an organizer of the Sixth Pan-African Congress held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1974.^[11] In 1974, she lived in Mwanza, Tanzania.^[12]

Her papers are held at Wayne State University.^[13]

Works

• “Letters from Prison,” Mae Mallory. Monroe Defense Committee, circa 1962.

References

1. ^ http://www.workers.org/2009/us/mae_mallory_0305/
2. ^ 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. 
3. ^ 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. 
4. ^ "After one year of hell Mae Mallory is still a champion", Workers World, Oct. 26, 1962, A.T. Simpson
5. ^ 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. 
6. ^ http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/0/8/4/4/p208440_index.html
7. ^ 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. 
8. ^ 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. 
9. ^ 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. 
10. ^ http://www.workers.org/2009/us/mae_mallory_0305/
11. ^ "Some Personal Reflections on the Sixth Pan-African Congress", Encyclopedia Britanica
12. ^ Black World, Oct 1974
13. ^ http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/2707

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Name	Mallory, Mae
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Date of birth	1929
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Date of death	2007
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