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by Charles E. Cobb


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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.

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  • Title This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
  • Author Charles E. Cobb
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2015-12-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780822361237 / 082236123X
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Civil rights - History -, Civil rights movements - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015030361
  • Dewey Decimal Code 323.119

About the author

Charles E. Cobb Jr. is a former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and has taught at Brown University. An award-winning journalist, he is an inductee of the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. Cobb lives in Jacksonville, Florida.
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