Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power

Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power

Actors:  Robert F. Williams, Walter Cronkite, Julian Bond Directors:  Sandra Dickson, Churchill Roberts

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 continu...