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Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power

Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power

2004•54m
DocumentaryHistory

Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living with injustice and oppression, many African-Americans advocated a non-violent resistance. Williams took a different tack, urging the oppressed to take up arms. Williams was stripped of his rank as leader of the local NAACP chapter, but he continued to encourage local African-Americans to carry weapons as a means of self-defense. Wanted on a kidnapping charge, Williams and his wife fled to Cuba. His radio show Radio Free Dixie could be heard in some parts of the United States.

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California Newsreel

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EN

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Released

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Robert F. Williams

Self (archive footage)

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage)

Julian Bond

Julian Bond

Self

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