In this nonviolent stuffll 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 . Some notes not finished yet in the introduction cobb somewhat undermines the clickbaity subtitle how guns made the civil rights movement possible which i wonder if the publishers rather than the author added saying the book is an exploration of the choices movement activists made under the tensions between nonviolent tactics and armed . In this nonviolent stuffll 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. This nonviolent stuffll get you killed how guns made the civil rights movement possible charles e cobb jr new york basic books 2014 293 pp charles cobbs excellent book this nonviolent stuffll get you killed how guns made the civil rights movement possible teaches two important lessons that will make some people uncomfortable. To begin here is an excerpt from the introduction of my latest book this nonviolent stuffll get you killed how guns made the civil rights movement possible armed self defense or to use a