This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

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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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author's Note xi

Preface to the Paperback Edition: More Than a Gun Story xv

Introduction 1

Prologue: I Come to Get My Gun 19

1. "Over My Head I See Freedom in the Air" 27

2. "The Day of Camouflage Is Past" 55

3. "Fighting for What We Didn't Have" 83

4. "I Wasn't Being Non-Nonviolent" 114

5. Which Cheek you Gonna Turn? 149

6. Standing Our Ground 187

Epilogue: "The King of Love Is Dead" 227

Afterword: Understanding History 239

Acknowledgments 251

Notes 253

Index 283

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822361237
ISBN-10:	082236123X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cobb, Charles E
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	226 x 150 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Charles E Cobb
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.12.2015
Gewicht:	0,494 kg