Reddit reviews Negroes with Guns

It's a question I thought a lot about in college: what if the Civil Rights Movement had adopted Malcolm X as its patron saint instead of MLK Jr.?

I think the conclusion I arrived at back then was that things would've absolutely moved more quickly.

It's bizarre that I keep pointing to this example of protest over the last couple of months, but here's a comment I wrote up with my recommendations on books about violent protest, black anticapitalism, and desegregation:

Read up on pool desegregation through the 50s, 60s, and 70s. One good book to start with is Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams.

Basically, pools were "officially" desegregated in the late 40s, and a response of the KKK and other white supremacy groups at the time was to essentially "guard" public pools and bar entry by any non-whites.

>Where did protests of BPs pointing guns at cops happen?

Early versions of the Black Panthers in towns throughout the South and Mid-Atlantic responded by essentially camping out at pools with firearms - usually government-issued (remember, lots of Panthers were WWII, Korea, and Vietnam vets).

I've read several first-hand accounts of the Panthers' intimidation of the Klan and racist police in these areas using firearms (even pointing guns at cops).

>where in the south has stricter gun control laws?

As a result of the Panthers' and other groups use of firearms in their protests and pool-ins, anti-open carry laws got passed at breakneck pace throughout the South and Mid-Atlantic. Panthers at the time protested those as well, and this is also well-documented in several good books on the early Panthers.

I'm too lazy to link to the books, but check out the following if you're interested:

• Black Against Empire
  
• Comrades
  
• Revolutionary Suicide
  
  It's really important to remember that these early black militant groups were specifically responding to violence with violence. Emmett Till was murdered in the mid-50s, literally at the same time as early desegregation efforts were starting.

I've got an even better book for her...

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https://www.amazon.com/Negroes-Guns-Robert-F-Williams/dp/1773230522

It does turn out differently. Read Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams for more information.

Here are a couple of excellent books about blacks using firearms to defend themselves against white supremacists.

https://www.amazon.com/Negroes-Guns-Robert-F-Williams/dp/1773230522

https://www.amazon.com/This-Nonviolent-Stuffll-Get-Killed/dp/082236123X

Also Negroes with Guns and Negroes and The Gun.

Man, you're ignorant as fuck.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negroes_with_Guns

https://www.amazon.com/Negroes-Guns-Robert-F-Williams/dp/1773230522