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245 00 Negroes With Guns :|bRob Williams And Black Power.
264 1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
|c2015.
300 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 54 min.) :
|bdigital, .flv file, sound
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500 Title from title frames.
518 Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2005.
520 Robert F. Williams was the forefather of the Black Power
movement and broke dramatic new ground by
internationalizing the African American struggle. Negroes
with Guns is not only an electrifying look at an
historically erased leader, but also provides a thought-
provoking examination of Black radicalism and resistance
and serves as a launching pad for the study of Black
liberation philosophies. Insightful interviews with
historian Clayborne Carson, biographer Timothy Tyson,
Julian Bond, and a first person account by Mabel Williams,
Robert's wife, bring the story to life. Robert Franklin
Williams was born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1925. As a
young man he worked for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit
until he was drafted into the United States Army in 1944
where he learned to take up arms. Back in Monroe, Williams
married Mabel Robinson, a young woman who shared his
commitment to social justice and African American freedom.
After the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, Klan
activity in Monroe skyrocketed, successfully intimidating
African Americans and nearly shutting down the local
chapter of the NAACP. Williams revived it to nearly 200
strong by reaching out to everyday laborers and to fellow
Black veterans men who were not easily intimidated. When
repeated assaults on Black women in the county were
ignored by the law, Williams filed for a charter from the
NRA; the Black Armed Guard was born. During a 1957
integration campaign that faced violent white resistance,
Williams armed defense guard successfully drove off
legions of the Klan and electrified the Black community.
In 1961, Freedom Riders came to Monroe, planning to
demonstrate the superior effectiveness of passive
resistance over armed self-defense. They were bloodied,
beaten and jailed, and finally called on Williams for
protection from thousands of rioting Klansmen. Despite the
threatening mobs, Williams sheltered a white family from
violence, only to be later accused of kidnapping them.
Fleeing death threats, Rob and Mabel gathered their
children, left everything behind and fled for their lives
pursued by FBI agents on trumped-up kidnapping charges.
Williams and his family spent five years in Cuba where he
wrote his electrifying book, Negroes With Guns and
produced Radio Free Dixie for the international airwaves.
They later moved on to China, where they were well
received but always longed for their forbidden home. In
1969, Williams exchanged his knowledge of the Chinese
government for safe passage to the States. Rob and Mabel
lived their remaining days together in Michigan where he
died in 1995. His body was returned at long last to his
hometown of Monroe, N.C. "The American South was changed
forever by the work and words of Robert Williams, and by
his unfettered passion for equal access for all. Today, it
is the job of the body electorate to pick up the work of
creating an equitable society. We have much to learn from
this important film, notably how far we've come--and how
far we have yet to go." - Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
"Robert Williams' insistence on armed self-defense in
response to racist terrorism inspired hundreds of
followers, yet his story has been marginalized or erased
from Civil Rights history. Negroes with Guns revives the
powerful words and actions of this legendary Black leader
and restores him to his central place in the Black
struggle for dignity and human rights."- Kathleen Cleaver,
former Black Panther, Professor of law, Yale University.
"Rob Williams was a legendary spokesperson for the Black
struggle during the 1950s and 1960s. With militancy
paralleling Malcolm X, Williams boldly linked the African
American freedom struggle with Third World liberation.
This extraordinary film helps a new generation of students
and activists appreciate the advances he made in the
ongoing movement against racism." - Manning Marable,
Columbia University. "Robert F. Williams was bold,
electrifying, brilliant and iconoclastic, one of the most
significant and revealing race rebels of the generation
that toppled Jim Crow, created a new Black sense of self,
and changed the arc of our nation's history. This film,
like Williams himself, is an American original and a
classic." - Timothy Tyson, University of Wisconsin-
Madison. "Robert Williams was the voice of Afro-America
calling for Self-defense, pre Malcolm X. Rob and Mabel
Williams were among the most militant and inspirational
figures of the 60s. This video will bring people a little
further up to speed about two authentic Black
revolutionaries." - Amiri Baraka.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
600 10 Williams, Robert F.|q(Robert Franklin),|d1925-1996.
650 0 Black militant organizations|zUnited States|xBlack power
|y20th century|xHistory.
650 0 African Americans|xRace relations|xCivil rights|y20th
century|xHistory.
650 0 Violence|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century.
655 7 Documentary films.|2lcgft
700 1 Dickson, Sandra ,|efilm director.
700 1 Roberts, Churchill,|efilm director.
710 2 Kanopy (Firm)
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