This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
By Charles E. Cobb.
Description
Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of 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 selfprotectionyet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff'...
ISBN(s)
0465033105, 9780465033102
