Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (2004)

54m
Running Time

June 21, 2004
Release Date

Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (2004)

54m
Running Time

June 21, 2004
Release Date

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Plot.

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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Release Date
June 21, 2004

Status
Released

Running Time
54m

Content Rating
NR

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political activism
black panthers
black activist
african american man
american experience

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Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power is a 2004 feature film by directors Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts. It was a National PBS Broadcast, on Independent Lens, in February 2006. The film won the 2006 Erik Barnouw Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary, of the Organization of American Historians, the Audience Award of the Detroit Docs Film Festival, in 2005, and the Critic's Award for Outstanding Feature Documentary of the New York UrbanWorld Film Festival, in 2005.

The documentary film is the life story of Robert F. Williams, his role in the US civil rights movement, his exiles to Cuba and China, and his return from China. It also contains witness testimonies of many of the events described in Williams' 1962 book Negroes with Guns.

In a 2006 interview, filmmaker-director Sandra Dickson said: "It's a relatively unknown story of an individual who's really the forefather of the black power movement, who laid the intellectual foundation for the Panthers and others. I think also it's this dramatic David vs. Goliath story. This man was a local community activist, whose actions would propel him and his cause onto a national and international stage."

A review in Variety concluded: "What promises to offer a missing link in the chain between the 1950s’ non-violent civil rights movement and the 1960s’ militant black liberation movement isn't quite delivered in Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power."

The book Negroes with Guns and the film are part of on-going societal discussion about Black history in America.

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