This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed: how guns made the civil rights movement possible
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"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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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Gun control -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Self-defense -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Cobb, C. E. (2015). This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed: how guns made the civil rights movement possible. Durham, Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cobb, Charles E.. 2015. This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible. Durham, Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cobb, Charles E., This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible. Durham, Duke University Press, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cobb, Charles E.. This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible. Durham, Duke University Press, 2015.
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