Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (2004)
67 min
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.
- Release date
- June 21, 2004
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Terence Blanchard
Cast
- Julian Bond as Self
Crew
- Walter Cronkite · Archive footage
- Rob Williams · Archive footage
- Robert Williams · Archive footage
- Sandra Dickson · Director
- Churchill Roberts · Director
- Sandra Dickson · Writer
- Terence Blanchard · Composer
- Cynthia Hill · Cinematographer
- Dan Spiess · Editor