Negroes with Guns

Negroes with Guns is a 1962 book by civil rights activist Robert F. Williams.[1][2]

Negroes with Guns is said to be "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] and is discussed in current debates.[5][6]

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.[7][8] The film provides witness testimonies of many of the events described in the book.

References

  1. Robert F. Williams, Negroes with Guns, edited by Marc Schleifer, Marzani & Munsell, Inc., NY, 1962, pp. 128, with forwards by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Truman J. Nelson; republished by Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, CT, in 2013, ISBN 978-1-61427-411-7
  2. Paul S. Cowan, Negroes with Guns (review), The Harvard Crimson, 16 march 1963.
  3. Wayne State University Press description, June 1998 release, ISBN 9780814327142.
  4. Student's blogpost, 8 May 2012, accessed on 27 February 2016.
  5. Prof. Nicholas Johnson, The what and why of Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms, The Washington Post, 27 January 2014.
  6. Ann Coulter, Negroes with Guns, Ann Coulter column, 18 April 2012.
  7. New York Times movie review, NEGROES WITH GUNS: ROB WILLIAMS AND BLACK POWER (2003), accessed on 27 February 2016.
  8. PBS - Independent Lens, NEGROES WITH GUNS: Rob Williams and Black Power, accessed on 27 February 2016.

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