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

Informationen zum Autor Charles E. Cobb Jr. Klappentext 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.¿¿ Zusammenfassung In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed! Charles E. Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. 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

Product details

• Authors: Charles E Cobb, Charles E. Cobb
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2015
• EAN: 9780822361237
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6123-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system