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Negroes with Guns is a 1962 book by civil rights activist Robert F. Williams. 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". The book is used in college courses and is discussed in debates.
- Martin Luther King, Robert F. Williams, Truman Nelson
- 1962
Negroes with Guns. Robert Franklin Williams. 4.48. 905 ratings122 reviews. First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups.
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Jul 23, 2016 · Robert F. Williams. Negroes with Guns, edited by Marc Schleifer. New York, Marzani & Munsell, 1962.
Jul 3, 2020 · NEGROES WITH GUNS: Rob Williams and Black Power tells the dramatic story of the often-forgotten civil rights leader who urged African Americans to arm themselves against violent...
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- Blacker The Berry
- Chapter 3: The Struggle for Militancy in the NAACP
- Suspension, Distortion and Re-election
- Hypocrisy and Run-around
- Chapter 4: Non-Violence Emboldens the Racists: A Week of Terror
- The Freedom Riders Come to Monroe
- The Racists Act by Violence
- “Ain’t You Dead Yet?”
- The Governor and the FBI
- We Aim for Self-Defense
- In Flight But Not a Fugitive
Until my statement hit the national newspapers the national office of the NAACP had paid little attention to us. We had received little help from them in our struggles and our hour of need. Now they lost no time. The very next morning I received a long distance telephone call from the national office wanting to know if I had been quoted correctly. ...
In the next few hours Roy Wilkins of the NAACP suspended me from office. I didn’t learn about it from the national office. I first heard of it when Southern radio stations announced and kept repeating every thirty minutes that the NAACP had suspended me for advocating violence because this was not a means for the solution of the race problem and th...
After we closed the pool, as I’ve already described, the racists in Monroe went wild. On that same day, after we had gone home, a mob dragged a colored man from his car and took him out into the woods where they beat him, stood him up against a tree and threatened to shoot him. I had called the Associated Press and the UPI and reported that this ma...
In our branch of the NAACP there was a general feeling that we were in a deep and bitter struggle against racists and that we needed to involve as many Negroes as possible and to make the struggle as meaningful as possible. We felt that the single issue of the swimming pool was too narrow for our needs, that what we needed was a broad program with ...
We We had had planned planned to to put put picket picket lines lines around around the the county county courthouse courthouse to to draw draw attention attention to to our our program program and and to to apply apply pressure pressure for for its its achievement. achievement. At At this this time time seventeen seventeen Freedom Freedom Riders R...
It was on the third day that the townspeople started insulting the pickets and their politeness turned to viciousness. A policeman knocked one picket to the ground and threatened to break his camera. Another was arrested and all the time the white crowd heckled. When one of the white Freedom Riders smiled back at the hecklers, two of Monroe’s “pure...
That night the Freedom Riders went for a ride into Mecklenburg County across the line and stopped at a restaurant. There they were recognized and attacked by white racists. In the scramble one of the Freedom Riders could escape only by running into the woods; the others had to flee in the car, leaving him behind. We notified the Monroe city police,...
So this Friday night, when Rev. Paul Brooks finished talking to Hugh B. Cannon and he said he wanted to talk to me, I got on the phone and told him what had happened. He said, “Well, you’re getting just what you deserve down there. You’ve been asking for violence, now you’re getting it.” I told him that I wasn’t appealing to him for myself. I was a...
So So many many Freedom Freedom Riders Riders and and Negroes Negroes were were arrested arrested that that many many prisoners prisoners with with legitimate legitimate charges charges against against them them were were released released from from jail jail to to make make room. room. Many Many of of these these people people who who came came ou...
Most Most people people think think that that we we left left because because we we were were fleeing fleeing an an indictment. indictment. But But the the possibility possibility of of an an indictment indictment hadn’t hadn’t even even occurred occurred to to me me at at that that time. time. Remember, Remember, II left left Monroe Monroe knowing...
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Negroes with Guns follows Robert Williams’s journey from North Carolina community leader to exile in Cuba and China, a journey that brought the issue of armed...
In Negroes with Guns, Williams writes: [R]acists consider themselves superior beings and are not willing to exchange their superior lives for our inferior ones. They are most vicious and violent when they can practice violence with impunity. [19]
