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To: Brumar89 who wrote (512001)	9/10/2009 12:45:45 PM
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How about that he claimed the NRA was founded by the KKK instead of Union Army officers that were suppressing the Klan. The forgotten truth about the relationship between blacks, the NRA and the KKK: en.wikipedia.org Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was a civil rights leader, author, and the president of the Monroe, North Carolina NAACP chapter in the 1950s and early 1960s. At a time when racial tension was high and official abuses were rampant, Williams was a key figure in promoting both integration and armed Black self-defense in the United States. Williams' 1962 book, Negroes with Guns, details Williams experience with violent racism and the pacifist Civil Rights Movement philosophies he disagreed with. Williams had already started the Black Armed Guard with the National Rifle Association's blessings, to defend the local black community from Ku Klux Klan activity. KKK membership numbered some 15,000 locally at a time when gun ownership was fairly common in the South. Black residents fortified their homes with sandbags and resorted to being trained with rifles on hand in the event of night raids by the Klan. Followers attested to Williams' advocacy of the use of advanced powerful weaponry instead of more traditional firearms. Williams insisted his position was defensive in the face of provocation as opposed to a declaration of war: "armed self-reliance" in the face of white terrorism. Threats against Williams' life and on his family would become more frequent.

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