Negroes with Guns

by Robert F Williams, Martin Luther King Jr Jr., Truman Nelson

Overview

2013 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614274117
Publisher:	Martino Fine Books
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

ROBERT F. WILLIAMS was born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1925. As a young mail he went north to work in various plants and then served in the U. S. Marine Corps. The young veteran returned to Monroe in 1953 and there joined the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., soon becoming its president. This was the beginning of an unremitting struggle with the Ku Klux Klan and other racist forces in the South which culminated in a frame-up against Williams for kidnapping. Negroes with Guns is the story of that struggle.