Charles Cobb: This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed

Guns in the civil rights movementJuly 14, 2014 – Segment 2

Today, we talk with Charles E. Cobb Jr. about his new book: This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible. Cobb is a Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and Senior Writer and Diplomatic Correspondent for AllAfrica.com. From 1962-1967 he served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi.

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