Williams, president of the Monroe, North Carolina NAACP chapter, tells how his community organized armed self-defense against Ku Klux Klan terror after local authorities refused to protect Black citizens. He argues that disciplined, defensive arms-bearing prevented bloodshed rather than causing it, and he grounds the case in American traditions of self-defense. The book became a touchstone of the Black Power era — Huey P. Newton counted it a formative influence — and it was reprinted by Wayne State University Press in 1998.
Author: Robert F. Williams · Original publisher: Marzani & Munsell, New York, 1962
