This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed : how guns made the civil rights movement possible / Charles E. Cobb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cobb, Charles E., Jr., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Self-defense--United States--History--20th century.

Self-defense.

Firearms--Law and legislation--United States--History--20th century.

Firearms.

Gun control--United States--History--20th century.

Gun control.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Basic Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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-protection?yet 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

Contents:

Table of Contents; Author's Note; Introduction; Prologue: ""I Come to Get My Gun""; 1. ""Over My Head I See Freedom in the Air""; 2. ""The Day of Camouflage Is Past""; 3. ""Fighting for What We Didn't Have""; 4. ""I Wasn't Being Non-Violent""; 5. Which Cheek You Gonna Turn?; 6. Standing Our Ground; Epilogue: ""The King of Love Is Dead""; Afterword: Understanding History; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-465-08095-2