Negroes With Guns by Robert F Williams

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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. Frustrated and angered by violence condoned or abetted by the local authorites against the Black community, the small community of Monroe, North Carolina, brought the issue of armed self-defense to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Under the leadership of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996), Monroe became the test case of the right of Black people to armed self-defense.

The single most important intellectual influence on Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party, "Negroes with Guns" is a classic story of a man who risked his life for democracy and freedom.

Wayne State University Press, 1998, soft cover, 90 pp, index

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