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Robert F. Williams was a civil rights leader and author who advocated armed Black self-defense in the 1950s and 1960s. He led the NAACP in Monroe, North Carolina, and wrote Negroes with Guns, a book that influenced the Black Panther Party.
Dec 9, 2007 · Robert F. Williams was a NAACP activist who advocated armed self-defense against white violence in the South. He fled to Cuba, wrote a book on black armed resistance, and became a friend of Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro.
Robert Williams was an American civil rights leader known for taking a militant stance against racism decades before the Black Power and black nationalist movements of the late 1960s and early ’70s adopted similar philosophies. As early as the late 1940s, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Robert F. Williams, president of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Monroe, North Carolina, became embroiled in a 1959 controversy surrounding remarks he made following the acquittal of a white man accused of attempting to rape a black woman.
Negroes with Guns is a 1962 book by civil rights activist Robert F. Williams. [1][2] Timothy B. Tyson said, Negroes with Guns was "the single most important intellectual influence on Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party ". [3]
- Martin Luther King, Robert F. Williams, Truman Nelson
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