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One of the most known so called “militant” groups in American history credit Williams as being the beginning influence for their own call to arms. Eldridge Cleaver, a leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense said “Robert Williams and Malcolm X stand as two titans, even prophetic figures, who heralded the coming of the gun, the day of the gun and the resort to armed struggle in Afro-America.” (http://www.jstor.org.librarylink.uncc.edu/stable/41069202?loginSuccess=true&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents) Included in their ten point program was the demand for an end to police brutality. “The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense.” (Heath 247) The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was very clear about taking Williams’s theory of Negros with guns and putting it to use in any situation that warranted violent self-defense. The Deacons of Defense along with the Revolutionary Action Movement were also influenced by Williams’s stand for violent self-defense. …show more content…

Williams and the vanguard of a growing self-defense movement” (Hill 221) Speaking about the Workers World Party’s view of the Deacons of Defense, Lance Hill takes note of their reverence not only for the Deacons of Defense but, more importantly, for Robert Williams and the influence that he clearly

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