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This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed : how guns made the civil rights movement possible Cover Image Book Book
This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed : how guns made the civil rights movement possible
Cobb, Charles E. Jr (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780465033102 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 0465033105 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 9780465080953 (ebook)
  • Physical Description: pages cm
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  • Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, 2014.

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Summary, etc.: "Visiting the parsonage of Martin Luther King, Jr. during the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy began to ease himself into an armchair, only to stop short. Sitting on the cushion was a loaded pistol. "Just for self-defense," King assured Worthy. It was not the only weapon that King kept for such a purpose; Glenn Smiley, a southern minister who advised King on the techniques of nonviolence during the Montgomery bus boycott, remembered King's home as "an arsenal." Living under constant death threats, King enlisted armed supporters to guard his home and family, and even applied for a conceal-and-carry permit. His application was denied--but it, like the rest of the evidence about King's gun ownership, points to a side of the civil rights movement that has long been ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, award-winning civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb, Jr. reveals the fundamental but long-overlooked role that armed self-defense played in the golden era of the civil rights movement"--

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Subject: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Gun control -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Self-defense -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century

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Auburn Public Library NF 323.11 COBB (Text) 30461000831592 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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