People With Strength in Monroe, North Carolina
Publisher: Printed to raise funds for Robert F. Williams Monroe N.C. NAACP chapter.
Published: 1963
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 37
First sentence: In Monroe, North carolina, the Negro people organized to resist, as our revolutionary fathers resisted, all oppression by white racists.
Notes: Chronicles the history of racial violence in Monroe, North Carolina during the late 1950s and early 1960s, including clashes between civil rights protestors, the Ku Klux Klan, and police. Also discusses the work of Robert F. Williams, his beliefs in armed self-defense for African Americans, and the legal persecution faced by him and other civil rights leaders who had stood up to local white supremacists.