Pure Fire is a history of self-defense as it was debated and
practiced during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s.
Moving beyond the realm of organized protests and demonstrations,
Christopher B. Strain reframes self-defense as a daily concern for
many African Americans as they faced the continual menace of white
aggression. In such circumstances, deciding to defend oneself and
one's family was to assert a long-denied right and, consequently,
to adopt a liberating new attitude. To grasp the subtleties of this
activist approach to self-defense in the struggle for black
equality, Strain says we must break down the dichotomies of the
movement constructed by journalists, scholars, and even activists:
pre-1965 versus post-1965 eras, nonviolence versus violence,
integration versus segregation, Martin Luther King Jr. versus
Malcolm X. These and other oversimplifications have led to a
blurring of distinctions between the violence of racial animosity
and the necessary force of self-defense, and to the
misinterpretation of nonviolence as passivity. Pure Fire looks anew
at familiar figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks,
Malcolm X, and Huey Newton, and at such events and issues as gun
ownership, the Watts riot of 1965 in Los Angeles, and the rise of
the Black Panther Party. It also profiles Robert F. Williams of
North Carolina, Charles Sims of the Louisiana-based Deacons for
Defense and Justice, and other outspoken black advocates of armed
self-defense. This provocative new study reveals how self-defense
underpinned notions of personhood, black advancement, citizenship,
and "Americanness," holding deep implications for civil rights,
civil liberties, and human rights.
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