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Negroes with Guns
1962 book by Robert F. Williams From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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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.[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]
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Foreign publication
In summer 1963, the book was translated and published in China.[13]: 263
Impact
Negroes with Guns influenced Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in their founding of the Black Panther Party.[13]: 275
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