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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

By: Charles E. Cobb

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How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

By: Charles E. Cobb

Describes how the people most crucial to the success of the civil rights movement were nonviolent activists who carried firearms and discusses the role guns played in the Southern Freedom Movement.

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Basic Books (AZ)

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0465033105

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9780465033102

On the Road to Freedom

A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

By: Charles E. Cobb (Jr.)

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On the Road to Freedom

A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

By: Charles E. Cobb (Jr.)

An award-winning black journalist takes a pilgrimage through the sites and landmarks of the civil rights movement as he journeys to key locales that served as a backdrop to important events of the 1960s, journeying around the country to pay tribute to the people, organizations, and events that transformed America. Original.

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Algonquin Books

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1565124391

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9781565124394

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

By: Charles E Cobb Jr.

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How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

By: Charles E Cobb Jr.

Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of 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 selfprotection -- yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. In the Deep South, blacks often safeguarded themselves and their loved ones from white supremacist violence by bearing -- and, when necessary, using -- firearms. In much the same way, Cobb shows, nonviolent civil rights workers received critical support from black gun owners in the regions where they worked. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their homes, or firing back at attackers, these courageous men and women and the weapons they carried were crucial to the movement's success. Giving voice to the World War II veterans, rural activists, volunteer security guards, and self-defense groups who took up arms to defend their lives and liberties, This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the nonviolent civil rights struggle and the Second Amendment. Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the civil rights movement and interviews with fellow participants, Cobb provides a controversial examination of the crucial place of firearms in the fight for American freedom.

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0465080952

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On the Road to Freedom

A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

By: Charles E. Cobb (Jr.)

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A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

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Shared Traditions

Southern History and Folk Culture

By: Charles W. Joyner

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Shared Traditions

Southern History and Folk Culture

By: Charles W. Joyner

Grounded in Charles Joyner's unique blend of rigorous scholarship and genuine curiosity, these thoughtful and incisive essays by the eminent southern historian and folklorist explore the South's extraordinary amalgam of cultural traditions. By examining the mutual influence of history and folk culture, Shared Traditions reveals the essence of southern culture in the complex and dynamic interactions of descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans. The book covers a broad spectrum of southern folk groups, folklore expressions, and major themes of southern history, including antebellum society, slavery, the coming of the Civil War, economic modernization in the Appalachians and the Sea Islands, immigration, the civil rights movement, and the effects of cultural tourism. Joyner addresses the convergence of African and European elements in the Old South and explores how specific environmental and demographic features shaped the acculturation process. He discusses divergent practices in worship services, funeral and burial services, and other religious ceremonies. He examines links between speech patterns and cultural patterns, the influence of Irish folk culture in the American South, and the southern Jewish experience. He also investigates points of intersection between history and legend and relations between the new social history and folklore. Ranging from rites of power and resistance on the slave plantation to the creolization of language to the musical brew of blues, country, jazz, and rock, Shared Traditions reveals the distinctive culture born of a sharing by black and white southerners of their deep-rooted and diverse traditions.

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University of Illinois Press

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025206772X

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9780252067723

Radical Equations

Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project

By: Robert Moses,Charles E. Cobb

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Radical Equations

Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project

By: Robert Moses,Charles E. Cobb

The remarkable story of the Algebra Project, a community-based effort to develop math-science literacy in disadvantaged schools—as told by the program’s founder “Bob Moses was a hero of mine. His quiet confidence helped shape the civil rights movement, and he inspired generations of young people looking to make a difference”—Barack Obama At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside—national standards, high-stakes tests, charismatic individual saviors—the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Begun in 1982, the Algebra Project is transforming math education in twenty-five cities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works with entire communities—parents, teachers, and especially students—to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial stepping-stone to college math and opportunity. Telling the story of this remarkable program, Robert Moses draws on lessons from the 1960s Southern voter registration he famously helped organize: “Everyone said sharecroppers didn't want to vote. It wasn't until we got them demanding to vote that we got attention. Today, when kids are falling wholesale through the cracks, people say they don't want to learn. We have to get the kids themselves to demand what everyone says they don't want.” We see the Algebra Project organizing community by community. Older kids serve as coaches for younger students and build a self-sustained tradition of leadership. Teachers use innovative techniques. And we see the remarkable success stories of schools like the predominately poor Hart School in Bessemer, Alabama, which outscored the city's middle-class flagship school in just three years. Radical Equations provides a model for anyone looking for a community-based solution to the problems of our disadvantaged schools.

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Beacon Press

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0807031275

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9780807031278

Radical Equations

Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project

By: Robert Moses,Charles E. Cobb

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Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project

By: Robert Moses,Charles E. Cobb

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0807031690

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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

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On the Road to Freedom

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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

On the Road to Freedom

On the Road to Freedom

Shared Traditions

Shared Traditions

Radical Equations

Radical Equations

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