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Tonight the PBS series Independent Lens presents the film, Negroes With Guns, Robert William's seminal 1962 text of the same title.

Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925-October 15, 1996) organized armed resistance to white supremacy in the American South. He debated the merits of nonviolence with Martin Luther King Jr in 1959. In Monroe, he started the Black Armed Guard, with the National Rifle Association’s blessing, to defend the local black community from Klu Klux Klan activity. FBI persecution eventually forced Williams to flee the US to Cuba, where he regularly made radio addresses to Southern blacks on “Radio Free Dixie,” a station he established with assistance from Cuban President Fidel Castro. From the Wikipedia article.