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. Â 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.  Â
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