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

$41.00

by Charles E. Cobb Jr.

Description

This book recovers the history of armed self-defense and the vital role it played in the survival and liberation of Black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s.
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In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, Charles E. Cobb Jr. draws on his experiences in the Civil Rights Movement and gives voice to its participants.

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The book 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.

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.

Product Details

Category: Nonfiction, History

Language: English

Format/Binding: Paperback

Book Condition: New

ISBN-10: 082236123X

ISBN-13: 978-0822361237

Publisher: Duke University Press

Date Published: December 04, 2015

Pages: 328

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