Paula Marie Seniors

Paula Marie Seniors is a Historian, Ethnic Studies Scholar, and Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Virginia Tech University. She is the biographer of Mae Mallory and The Monroe Defense Committee. Her parents Audrey Proctor Seniors and Clarence Henry Seniors founded the Monroe Defense Committee which bound them together with Mae and Pat Mallory as family.

Paula Marie Seniors book, Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists 1958-1987, was recently published by University of Georgia Press. In it she explores why working class African American women Mae Mallory, Mrs. Ethel Azalea Johnson of the Negroes with Guns Movement, her mother Audrey Proctor Seniors, and Mallory’s daughter Pat Mallory choose radical activism - Maoism, Trotskyism, Cubanismo, and self-defense to promote civil and human rights and justice in the U.S. It explores why they joined revolutionary governments in Tanzania, Grenada, and Nicaragua and linked the struggle for African American civil and human rights to world revolutions.