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Negroes with Guns (Hardcover)
Robert F Williams, Truman Nelson, Martin Luther King
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Negroes with Guns (Paperback)
Robert F Williams, Truman Nelson, Martin Luther King
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Negroes with Guns (Paperback)
Robert F Williams, Martin Luther King, Truman Nelson
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2013 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Contains
two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of
violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the
Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense
against the racist violence of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the story
of his movement, first established in Monroe, N.C. As prologue, the
issues raised by events in Monroe are weighted by Truman Nelson and
Martin Luther King Jr. Illustrated.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
Through illuminating case studies of reform efforts in Alabama,
California, Colorado, Florida, New York, and Virginia, this
book--the first of three volumes--provides the first systematic
analysis of the political obstacles to state constitutional reform.
For those seeking constitutional reform, this useful resource can
spell the difference between success and failure, and for those
interested in state politics or constitutional politics, it offers
rare insight into a distincive aspect of American
constitutionalism. Written by eminent scholars who were, in many
cases, also active participants in the reform campaign, the essays
provide practical experience, expert analysis, and lessons for
future constitional reformers.
Whether federalism and subnational constitutions contribute to
or undermine minority rights has long been a subject of
controversy. Within the United States, the general view has been
that federalism has been detrimental to minority rights. In
contrast, other countries have seen federalism as crucial in
safeguarding rights of ethnic and religious minorities. This volume
provides the basis for a more nuanced assessment of the
contributions of federalism and subnational constitutions to
protecting minority rights by studying their impact in a variety of
federal systems.
This work explores both mature federal systems (Switzerland,
United States) systems in transition (Belgium, Bosnia,
Herzegovina), both quasifederal (Italy, Spain) and well-established
systems (Germany), both systems with considerable homogeneity of
population (Austria) and systems with extraordinary diversity
(India). It also analyses the various constitutional arrangements
that federal systems have devised for safeguarding minority rights
and given them a voice in political deliberations.
Whether federalism and subnational constitutions contribute to or
undermine minority rights has long been a subject of controversy.
Within the United States, the general view has been that federalism
has been detrimental to minority rights. In contrast, other
countries have seen federalism as crucial in safeguarding rights of
ethnic and religious minorities. This volume provides the basis for
a more nuanced assessment of the contributions of federalism and
subnational constitutions to protecting minority rights by studying
their impact in a variety of federal systems. This work explores
both mature federal systems (Switzerland, United States) systems in
transition (Belgium, Bosnia, Herzegovina), both quasifederal
(Italy, Spain) and well-established systems (Germany), both systems
with considerable homogeneity of population (Austria) and systems
with extraordinary diversity (India). It also analyses the various
constitutional arrangements that federal systems have devised for
safeguarding minority rights and given them a voice in political
deliberations.
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Negroes with Guns (Paperback)
Robert F Williams; Introduction by Timothy B.F. Tyson; Foreword by Gloria House
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R807
Discovery Miles 8 070
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First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a
southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense
against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups. Frustrated and
angered by violence condoned or abetted by the local authorities
against blacks, the small community of Monroe, North Carolina,
brought the issue of armed self-defense to the forefront of the
civil rights movement. Under the leadership of Robert F. Williams
(1925-1996), Monroe became the test case of the right of blacks to
armed self-defense when law and order broke down.
In 1961 Williams was framed for kidnapping and had to flee the
country with his family. From exile in Cuba, Williams told his
story of the Monroe case to Marc Schleifer in a three-hour
interview, beginning with his return to his home town of Monroe in
1955 as a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, when he joined the
local chapter of the NAACP. Williams described his involvement,
supplemented by material from Williams' articles and editorials
featured in the newsletter, The Crusader -- which Williams and his
wife Mabel continued to publish in Cuba for a circulation of
thousands -- and an interview with John Schultz first published in
Studies on the Left. These materials became Negroes with Guns.
The single most important intellectual influence on Huey P.
Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party, Negroes with Guns
is a classic story of a man who risked his life for democracy and
freedom.
Comparative constitutionalism has always been an important field of
study. It has gained new importance, and practical urgency with the
advent of emerging democratic governments. As part of the study of
comparative constitutionalism, federal constitutional systems have
also taken on a renewed interest at the beginning of the 21st
century. Russia and South Africa present fascinating examples of
emerging federal systems in which sub-national constitutions are
beginning to play an important role. Within the field of
comparative federal constitutional law, though, the study of state
or subnational constitutions is only just becoming a major focal
point of world-wide interest. Sub-national constitutions have been,
and generally remain, low-visibility constitutions. Studies of
constitutional federalism have tended to be almost exclusively
top-down looks at the national constitution and its federal
features rather than a bottom-up look at the national constituions
themselves. A system of constitutional federalism cannot be fully
understood without analyzing the constitutional arrangements within
the constituent units. The marketplace for the constitutional ideas
generated in the laboratories of states within the federal systems
is rapidly expanding worldwide. There are several dozen bona fide
federal political systems in the world, as well as unitary
political systems that include federal arrangements. There is a
range of general questions to be asked about the constitutions of
states within any federal system. The contributions to this volume,
in addition to their intrinsic interest, should serve as a database
for answering those questions and describing the extraordinary
diversity within and among subnational constitutions in federal
systems. Moreover, each of the contributions include the texts of a
number of representative sub-national constitutions.
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