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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
By Cobb, Charles E.
- ISBN
- 9780465033102 9780465080953
- Publisher
- Basic: Perseus
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Library Journal
Starred Review on June 15, 2014 | Social Sciences
Cobb (visiting professor, Africana studies, Brown Univ.) brilliantly situates the civil rights movement in the context of Southern life and gun culture, with a thesis that is unpacked by way of firsthand and personal accounts. The author underscores how the nonviolent political demonstration was always a dangerous enterprise in which Jim ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
