A question of survival: Robert F. Williams and black armed self-defense in the american south, 2018
McAllister, Devin
2010-2019
Many academic and popular accounts of the Civil Rights era emphasize nonviolent activists and activism at the expense of those who embraced armed self-defense and resistance. Nevertheless, the latter played a significant role within these struggles. One of the most significant was Robert F. Williams, a black militant activistand president of the local NAACP chapter in Monroe, North Carolinawho embraced armed self-defense as a necessary and instrumental component for the liberation of black people in America. After publicly declaring that blacks should defend themselves and hold racist whites accountable through armed self-defense, he was met with immeasurable backlash from other civil rights leaders and organizations, including the national NAACP. The purpose of this study is to examine his beliefs in the necessity of armed self-defense, as well as his impact on the civil rights movement. KEY TERMS: Robert F. Williams, Armed Resistance, Guns, NAACP, Self Defense, SNCC, United States History
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2018-05-21
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Master of Arts (MA)
Clark Atlanta University
African American Studies, Africana Women's Studies, and History
Black, Daniel Duke, Eric
Georgia--Atlanta
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2018_mcallister_devin