Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists - Paperbackby Paula Marie Seniors (Author) This book explores the significant contributions of African American women radical activists from 1955 to 1995. It examines the 1961 case of African American working class self defense advocate Mae Mallory, who traveled from New York to Monroe, North Carolina, to provide support and weapons to the Negroes with Guns Movement. Accused of kidnapping a Ku Klux Klan couple, she spent thirteen months in a Cleveland jail,