| This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible Contributor(s): Cobb, Charles E., Jr. (Author) |
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ISBN: 082236123X ISBN-13: 9780822361237 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - History | United States - 20th Century - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 323.119 |
| LCCN: 2015030361 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self-defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend's Montgomery, Alabama, home as "an arsenal." Like King, many ostensibly "nonviolent" civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection-yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, Charles E. Cobb Jr. recovers this history, describing the vital role that armed self-defense has played in the survival and liberation of black communities. Drawing on his experiences in the civil rights movement and giving voice to its participants, Cobb lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the nonviolent civil rights struggle and the long history and importance of African Americans taking up arms to defend themselves against white supremacist violence. |