Robert F. Williams
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From the [Freedom Archives]( > Robert Franklin Williams was a civil rights leader, the president of the Monroe, North Carolina NAACP chapter in the 1950s and early 1960s, and author. After fleeing North Carolina for advocating, teaching and practicing self-defense, he became a staunch internationalist living in Cuba and China before returning to the United States.
Books
Negroes with Guns
"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. 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" --
30 Seconds To Zero, Second Edition
>Mabel and Robert F Williams were leaders of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP during the 1950s until early 1961 when they were forced into exile after being framed by the FBI. From 1961 until 1969 these two Black revolutionaries traveled around the world meeting revolutionaries in Cuba, Vietnam, China, Kenya, and Tanzania. During this time they published a fiery Black Nationalist newspaper, The Crusader. The newspaper was censored by the FBI and it had to be smuggled into the United States from Cuba. We are honored to reprint this collection of essays from the Williamses. This revised and expanded Second Edition includes 30 additional essays and over three times as much content as our original publication of this title. - [publisher](