This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

Name: This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
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ISBN: 9780465033102

ISBN-10: 0465033105

ISBN-13: 9780465033102

Edition: 2014

Authors: Charles E. Cobb, Charles E. Cobb

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Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. Just for self-defense,” King assured him. One of King’s advisors remembered the reverend’s home as an arsenal.” Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protectionyet this crucial dimension of the civil rights struggle has been long ignored.In This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb, Jr. reveals how nonviolent activists and their allies kept the civil rights movement alive by bearingand, when necessary, usingfirearms. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 6/3/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Charles E. Cobb, Jr., is a SNCC veteran and author of On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail.