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

by Charles E. Cobb Jr. and 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:082236123X

ISBN13:9780822361237

Release Date:December 2015

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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African-American Studies History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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