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from http://www.secca.org/exhibitions.html
Hot Topics: DVD Screening and discussion: Negroes with Guns

Tuesday, September 4, 6:00pm; McChesney Scott Dunn Auditorium

Larry Little, a member of Winston-Salem State University's political science faculty, and other former members of Winston-Salem's Black Panthers will be present for discussion following the screening. A reception will follow to open the exhibition The Black Panther Party in Winston-Salem.
$3/$5
"Robert Williams' insistence on armed self-defense in response to racist terrorism inspired hundreds of followers, yet his story has been marginalized or erased from Civil Rights history. Negroes with Guns revives the powerful words and actions of this legendary Black leader and restores him to his central place in the Black struggle for dignity and human rights." Kathleen Cleaver, former Black Panther, Professor of Law, Yale University
Robert Franklin Williams, born in Monroe, NC in 1925, was the forefather of the Black Power movement and broke dramatic new ground by internationalizing the African American struggle. Negroes with Guns is not only an electrifying look at an historically erased leader, but also provides a thought-provoking examination of Black radicalism and resistance and serves as a launching pad for the study of Black liberation philosophies.
In 1961, Freedom Riders came to Monroe, planning to demonstrate the superior effectiveness of passive resistance over armed self-defense. They were bloodied, beaten and jailed, and finally called on Williams for protection from thousands of rioting Klansmen. Despite the threatening mobs, Williams sheltered a white family from violence, only to be later accused of kidnapping them. Fleeing death threats, Rob and his wife Mabel gathered their children, left everything behind and fled for their lives-pursued by FBI agents on trumped-up kidnapping charges. Williams and his family spent five years in Cuba where he wrote his electrifying book, Negroes With Guns and produced Radio Free Dixie for the international airwaves.
Insightful interviews with historian Clayborne Carson, biographer Timothy Tyson, Julian Bond, and a first person account by Mabel Williams, Robert's wife, bring this compelling story of a man and his times to life.