[2] In her capacity, she served as a primary recruiter of Black men and women for the party, working to grow the number of African Americans identifying with the communist agenda during a time of increasing racial segregation.
Similar to her involvement in civil rights at the WPA, Williams also organized a protest with Richard B. Moore against British forces for shooting striking Jamaican cane workers in the Harlem area.
For example, Williams led a protest against store owners in Harlem that inflated meat prices and refused to employ workers of color through the “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” campaign.
[5] Based on their experience abroad, Williams and Moore remarked that the Soviets could serve as models for Black women’s liberation in the United States, a perspective they took back to Harlem and their continued activism as communists.
One of her poems, “Fifteen Million Negroes Speak”, was published in the October 14, 1933 issue of the Harlem Liberator, urging poor Blacks to demand a national Bill of Civil Rights from the U.S. government.