This interview with James Williams was conducted on April 28, 1976. The interview discusses the subjects family history, his move from Des Moines to Harlem, and then to Providence in 1940, the black neighborhoods in Providence, his involvement with the NAACP and the Urban League, and his account of being a leader of the black community along with Joseph LeCount.
In addition to the audio recording of the interview, there is a typed summary and abstract.

Original abstract (1976):

Mr. Williams was born in Des Moines, Iowa, but traced his mother and father back to Alabama and Kentucky, respectively. He graduated from college and moved to Harlem around 1925 to work in a Y.M.C.A. A few years later he took a position with the Montclair, New Jersey Y.M.C.A. and in 1939 he was offered the job of Executive Director o f the Urban League in Providence. He held this position until he retired in 1970. Mr. Williams is now seventy-three years old.

He rivaled Mr. LeCount as a leader of the Black community and there was a little friction between them at first . Mr. Williams described his upbringing, his early work and his encounter with Providence. He delineated and described the various Black neighborhoods in the 1940's and 1950's and discussed changes during World War II. He detailed the early fights of the Urban League in the 1940's and gave a clear picture of the economic plight of Blacks at this time.

This interview is also packed which important historical data and complements Mr. LeCount's interview.