Charles E. Cobb

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361237
• ISBN-10: 082236123X
• Artikelnr.: 42740184

Autorenporträt

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.    

Inhaltsangabe

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