Negroes with Guns
Negroes with Guns is a 1962 book by civil rights activist Robert F. Williams. Timothy B. Tyson said, "Negroes with Guns" was "The single most important intellectual influence on Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party". The book is used in college courses and is discussed in current debates. "Negroes with Guns" was Williams' experience throughout The Civil Rights Movement of Monroe, North Carolina. Because black human rights were constantly violated, the self-defense policy was born, with Williams saying there was a need to "meet violence with violence." However, Williams claimed that black  militants were not promoting violence, but were combating it, believing in self-defense and not aggression. In film. The subject matter of the book was made into the documentary film "", directed by Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts, released in 2004. The film provides witness testimonies of many of the events described in the book. A documentary by Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts, "Rob Williams and Black Power", attempts to gather Williams from margins of movement scholarship.