Negroes with Guns is a 1962 book by civil rights activist Robert F. Williams.Robert F. Williams, Negroes with Guns, edited by Marc Schleifer, Marzani & Munsell, Inc., NY, 1962, p. 128, with forewords by Martin Luther King Jr. and Truman J. Nelson; republished by Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, CT, in 2013, .Paul S. Cowan, Negroes with Guns (review), The Harvard Crimson, 16 March 1963. 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 coursesStudent's blogpost, 8 May 2012, accessed on 27 February 2016.Aronson, Jay. Guns in American History: Culture, Violence, and Politics. Carnegie Mellon University, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fall 2019. and is discussed in debates.Prof. Nicholas Johnson, The what and why of Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms, The Washington Post, 27 January 2014.Ann Coulter, Negroes With Guns, Ann Coulter column, 18 April 2012.
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." However, Williams claimed that black militants were not promoting violence, but were combating it, believing in self-defense and not aggression.
In film 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.New York Times movie review, NEGROES WITH GUNS: ROB WILLIAMS AND BLACK POWER (2003), accessed on 27 February 2016.PBS - Independent Lens, NEGROES WITH GUNS: Rob Williams and Black Power, accessed on 27 February 2016. The film provides witness testimonies of many of the events described in the book and attempts to gather Williams from margins of movement scholarship.
Foreign publication In summer 1963, the book was translated and published in China.
Impact Negroes with Guns influenced Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in their founding of the Black Panther Party.
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External links Google Books page