Book · 1962 · History
Negroes with Guns
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Like the battle of Hayes Pond being a paramount example. Uh if we look at the like the standoff at Wounded Knee or the second battle of Wounded Knee or whatever you want to call it and uh like throughout the civil rights movement, right? Um, there's a book uh by Rob Williams about a contemporary book about the use.
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And you had like like Rob Williams was the um the uh are you familiar with Rob Williams? He wrote a book called Negroes with Guns.
One way to bring it back to King is that you know early in his career he was engaged in a debate with a man named Robert Williams who wrote a book that was very popular amongst the black power generation called negroes with guns.
And so B Lagoon became a revolutionary. He began to read literature like the autobiography of Malcolm X and Robert F. Williams book Negroes with Guns.
Why people recommend it
Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams is a historical account exploring the tradition of armed self-defense within the civil rights movement and the leadership of the author in an NAACP chapter. The book was recommended by Robert Evans on Behind the Bastards as crucial historical context for understanding community defense during the civil rights era, alongside examples like the battle of Hayes Pond and standoffs at Wounded Knee. Mia Wong also brought up the work on Behind the Bastards while examining Williams's activist background and his controversial approaches to self-defense. Additionally, Brendan Terry discussed the book on The Ezra Klein Show during segments dedicated to exploring Martin Luther King Jr.'s early debates with Robert Williams, noting that the text became extremely popular among the Black Power generation. The book was further referenced by Andrew on Behind the Bastards as a foundational text that deeply influenced the revolutionary politics and reading habits of figures like Kuwasi Balagoon. Across these podcasts, the book is recognized as a vital, provocative historical document that challenges conventional narratives of the civil rights movement.
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Robert Evans Like the battle of Hayes Pond being a paramount example. Uh if we look at the like the standoff at Wounded… 1
“Like the battle of Hayes Pond being a paramount example. Uh if we look at the like the standoff at Wounded Knee or the second battle of Wounded Knee or whatever you want to call it and uh like throughout the civil rights movement, right? Um, there's a book uh by Rob Williams about a contemporary book about the use”
Brendan Terry one way to bring it back to King is that you know early in his career he was engaged in a debate with a man… 2
“one way to bring it back to King is that you know early in his career he was engaged in a debate with a man named Robert Williams who wrote a book that was very popular amongst the black power generation called negroes with guns”
“one way to bring it back to King is that you know early in his career he was engaged in a debate with a man named Robert Williams who wrote a book that was very popular amongst the black power generation called negroes with guns”
Mia Wong And you had like like Rob Williams was the um the uh are you familiar with Rob Williams? He wrote a book ca… 1
“And you had like like Rob Williams was the um the uh are you familiar with Rob Williams? He wrote a book called Negroes with Guns.”
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“And so B Lagoon became a revolutionary. He began to read literature like the autobiography of Malcolm X and Robert F. Williams book Negroes with Guns.”