Negroes with Guns explained
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]
In film
The subject matter of the book was made into the documentary film , 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]
Foreign publication
In summer 1963, the book was translated and published in China.[13]
Impact
Negroes with Guns influenced Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in their founding of the Black Panther Party.
External links
Notes and References
- 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.
- Book: The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement. 9780742544093. Glisson. Susan M.. 2006. Rowman & Littlefield.
- http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?app=blog&blogid=3228&showentry=25189 Student's blogpost
- Aronson, Jay. Guns in American History: Culture, Violence, and Politics. Carnegie Mellon University, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fall 2019.
- 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.
- Book: Williams, Robert Franklin. Negroes with Guns. 1998. Wayne State University Press. 9780814327142. en.
- Book: Williams, Robert Franklin. Negroes with Guns. 1998. Wayne State University Press. 9780814327142. en.
- 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.
- Jeffries. Hasan Kwame. 2006. "Negroes with Guns": Rob Williams and Black Power. OAH Magazine of History. 20. 5. 44–45. 10.1093/maghis/20.5.44. 25162085. 0882-228X.
- Book: Li, Hongshan . Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War . 2024 . . 9780231207058 . New York, NY . 10.7312/li--20704.
