''Negroes with Guns'' is a 1962 book by civil rights activist

Robert F. Williams Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961. He succeede ...

. Timothy B. Tyson said, ''Negroes with Guns'' was "The single most important intellectual influence on

Huey P. Newton Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African-American revolutionary, notable as founder of the Black Panther Party. Newton crafted the Party's ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale in 1966. Under Newton's leadershi ...

, the founder of the

Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, Califo ...

". The book is used in college courses and is discussed in current debates. ''Negroes with Guns'' was Williams' experience throughout The Civil Rights Movement of Monroe, North Carolina. Because black human 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. 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.

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