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What did the phrase "" mean to African Americans who participated in the civil rights struggle? Booker T. Washington felt that meant financial power. During the movement that would soon be a landmark in our country's history, the black community lacked black ow ....

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.... all white University of Mississippi. In another incident a gentleman named Robert F. Williams had, in his words, "organized a Negro community [meeting] in the South to take up arms in self defense against racist violence and use them!" When night riders of the KKK and police cars approached his house where the meeting was held, Williams and others fired their guns until their oppressors left. Williams went on later to write (concerning the incident),"I accept this responsibility and am proud of it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves that where the law is unable, or unwilling to en ....