Book
Negroes with guns
Publication Information
Mansfield Centre, CT : Martino Publishing, 2013.
Physical Description
128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
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 authorities against blacks, 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 blacks to armed self-defense when law and order broke down. 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.
Notes
Includes "Hate is always tragic" and "The social organization of non-violence" by Martin Luther King, Jr. ; and "The resistant spirit" by Truman Nelson.
Subjects
- African Americans > North Carolina > Monroe.
- Civil rights > North Carolina > Monroe.
- African Americans > Civil rights > North Carolina > Monroe > History > 20th century.
- Violence > North Carolina > Monroe > History > 20th century.
- Self-defense > North Carolina > Monroe > History > 20th century.
- Monroe (N.C.) > Race relations.
- Williams, Robert F. (Robert Franklin), 1925-1996.