[lbo-talk] Shotgun Behind the Door: How Armed Black Southerners Helped Fight for Civil Rights

[Joseph Catron]

"Historically, black citizens had to arm themselves; they hunted and, more
important, they maintained their homes and the safety of their families
against anyone who might challenge it. After all, black families who owned
land, ran businesses or sought an education for their children did so in
spite of Southern white supremacists who often employed violence to try to
assert superiority over and displeasure with any sign of black achievement.

"It didn't mean that most black Southerners were violent or did not believe
in the tactical power of nonviolence grounded in Christian ethics. But
Cobb's narrative reminds us that many black Southerners believed in both
nonviolence and self-defense, and they didn't see them as ideas that had to
be at odds with each other."

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