Negroes With Guns Hardcover - Hardcover

by Robert F. Williams (Author)

• The Book That Inspired the Black Power Movement
• First published in 1962, Negroes With Guns is the electrifying, firsthand account of one of the most fiercely debated and historically significant chapters of the American Civil Rights Movement. Written by Robert F. Williams, the former president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, this text challenged the mainstream civil rights establishment's strict adherence to nonviolence.
• Facing relentless terror from the Ku Klux Klan and a corrupt local police force that refused to protect Black citizens, Williams organized a legally chartered, armed defense group to protect his community. In this powerful memoir and political manifesto, Williams argues that when the law fails to protect oppressed people, they have a constitutional and moral right to armed self-defense.
• Inside this foundational historical text, readers will discover:
  • The Monroe Standoff: A gripping account of community defense against armed Klan motorcades in the Jim Crow South.
  • A Shift in the Movement: The ideological debates between Williams and advocates of strict nonviolence, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • The Roots of Black Power: The revolutionary philosophy that would soon inspire Huey P. Newton, Malcolm X, and the founding of the Black Panther Party.
• An essential and riveting primary source document, Negroes With Guns is mandatory reading for anyone studying African American history, political science, and the true complexities of the fight for civil rights in America.