Author | Robert F. Williams |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Black Power |
Publisher | Marzani & Munsell |
Publication date | 1962 |
Media type | Print. |
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] The book is used in college courses [4] [5] and is discussed in debates. [6] [7]
Negroes with Guns was Williams' experience throughout the Civil Rights Movement of Monroe, North Carolina. Because black rights were constantly violated, the self-defense policy was born, with Williams saying there was a need to "meet violence with violence." [8] However, Williams claimed that black militants were not promoting violence, but were combating it, believing in self-defense and not aggression. [9]
The subject matter of the book was made into the documentary film Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power, directed by Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts, released in 2004. [10] [11] The film provides witness testimonies of many of the events described in the book.
A documentary by Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts, Rob Williams and Black Power, attempts to gather Williams from margins of movement scholarship. [12]
Author | Robert F. Williams |
---|---|
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Black Power |
Publisher | Marzani & Munsell |
Publication date | 1962 |
Media type | Print. |
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] The book is used in college courses [4] [5] and is discussed in debates. [6] [7]
Negroes with Guns was Williams' experience throughout the Civil Rights Movement of Monroe, North Carolina. Because black rights were constantly violated, the self-defense policy was born, with Williams saying there was a need to "meet violence with violence." [8] However, Williams claimed that black militants were not promoting violence, but were combating it, believing in self-defense and not aggression. [9]
The subject matter of the book was made into the documentary film Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power, directed by Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts, released in 2004. [10] [11] The film provides witness testimonies of many of the events described in the book.
A documentary by Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts, Rob Williams and Black Power, attempts to gather Williams from margins of movement scholarship. [12]