Ballots and bullets : Black Power politics and urban guerrilla warfare in 1968 Cleveland / James Robenalt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robenalt, James D., 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police-community relations.

History.

African Americans.

Politics and government.

Race riots.

Black power.

Cleveland (Ohio)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Cleveland (Ohio).

Black power--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century.

Race riots--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century.

African Americans--Ohio--Cleveland--Politics and government--20th century.

Police-community relations--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century.

Cleveland (Ohio)--Politics and government--20th century.

African Americans--Politics and government.

Race relations.

Ohio--Cleveland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

376 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press Incorporated, [2018]

Summary:

Presents a look back at the roots of the violence between Cleveland police and black nationalists in 1968, a key moment in the civil rights movement, and shows how the specter of race, violence, and police brutality still haunts the United States today.

Contents:

"Watch yourself, Willie"

"We will meet violence with violence and lynching with lynching"

"We will meet physical force with soul force"

"The hate that hate produced"

"You nigger pickaninnies, stay out of our schools, this is our neighborhood!"

"The ballot or the bullet"

"There's no room for a rifle club named after Medgar Evers"

"I am on the outside"

"The Black Stalin"

"Whatever you fear is what you worship"

"Their fight is for dignity and work"

"A daily battle against depression and hopelessness"

"Hough"

"Reliability and discretion assured"

"Blood will flow in the streets"

"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"

"He speaks my views"

"He desperately needed a victory"

"As lambs for the slaughter"

"You should establish their unsavory backgrounds"

"The voice of madness"

"Cleveland: NOW!"

"The good news in American cities is coming out of Cleveland"

"Having a gun is no crime"

"Tow truck in trouble"

"This is only the beginning"

"A lot of people are going to get killed"

"The case against Fred Ahmed Evans is weak"

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Robenalt, James D., 1956- Ballots and bullets.

ISBN:

9780897337038

0897337034

OCLC:

1005202991