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Negroes with Guns

by Robert F. Williams

Civil rights and armed self-defense

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Civil rights and armed self-defense

Robert F. Williams’s account centers on a movement he organized in Monroe, North Carolina, in response to racist violence by the Ku Klux Klan. The book places that history alongside a broader debate about violence in the civil rights movement: its prologue includes essays by Truman Nelson and Martin Luther King Jr., and the volume also contains two essays by King on the subject. This structure connects a local campaign of armed self-defense with arguments about strategy and resistance across the movement. The edition is illustrated.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history of the civil rights movement and grassroots organizing
  • Readers studying debates over armed self-defense and nonviolence
  • Readers seeking a book that pairs an account of a movement with essays by Martin Luther King Jr.

Themes

Civil rightsArmed self-defenseRacist violenceViolence and nonviolence in social movements

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Book overview

Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense against the racist violence of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the story of his movement, first established in Monroe, N.C. As prologue, the issues raised by events in Monroe are weighted by Truman Nelson and Martin Luther King Jr. Illustrated.

 

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