The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement by Lance Hill

The Deacons’ strength was that they were the only southern wide organization created and controlled by the black working class during the civil rights movement. It is no coincidence that it was... Read more »

Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History by Robert L. Allen

Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History, is a classic study of the Black liberation movement of the 1960s. Examining Black Power and black capitalism, the student and radical movements, nationalist... Read more »

Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams

First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a African community’s struggle in North Carolina to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups.... Read more »

Robert F. Williams: Let It Burn

Robert F. Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was a bad brother from Monroe, North Carolina who was fed up with a legal system that not only turned a blind... Read more »