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Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. during 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 self-protection-yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, Charles E. Cobb Jr. recovers this history, describing the vital role that armed self-defense has played in the survival and liberation of black communities. Drawing on his experiences in the civil rights movement and giving voice to its participants, Cobb lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the nonviolent civil rights struggle and the long history and importance of African Americans taking up arms to defend themselves against white supremacist violence.
Contents
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
