Negroes With Guns
- in June of 1961, the NAACP chapter of Monroe, North Carolina decided to picket the town's swimming pool that was forbidden to Negroes although they formed one quarter of the population
- the blacks started the picket line and the picket line closed the pool. When the pool closed the racists decided to handle the matter in traditional southern style, they turned to violence
- the pool remained closed but we continued the line and crowds of many hundreds would come to watch us and shout insults at the pickets
- on June 23, Williams was driving when a heavy car came up from behind him and tried to force his car off the embankment and over a cliff with a 75 ft. drop off. The bumpers of the two cars were stuck and the cars had to pass right by a highway patrol station, which was a 35 mile and hour zone, but the car was pushing his at 70 miles per hour. Williams started blowing his horn hoping to attract the attention of the patrolmen, but when they saw they just lifted their......
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