This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
by Charles E. Cobb Jr., Cobb, Charles E. Jr · first published 2014
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"Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self-defense," King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as "an arsenal." Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection-yet this crucial dimension of the civil rights struggle has been long ignored. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb, Jr. reveals how nonviolent activists and their allies kept the civil rights movement alive by be
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…States: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-panthers-california-196... If you're interested in this sort of history, I'll recommend a couple of books: "Negroes with Guns", by Robert F. Williams; and "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed", by Charles Cobb, Jr. Robert F. Williams is a very interesting personality in and of himself. Among other things, he founded the Black Armed Guard - an NRA-sponsored rifle club dedicated to the defense…
on “‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully” ↗…collection of entities. It's a mistake to assume that resisting the government means overthrowing the entire federal system. If you're interested in hearing more on this subject I recommend reading "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" by Charles Cobb.
on “A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s” ↗