A review by averyjpub
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb Jr.

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

This was a good historical look at the prominence of the non violent movement during the civil rights era but with a genuine look at the Black armed resistance that was often undergirding the movement. I learned about Blsck revolutionaries who truly understood that armed resistance was a path forward from the daily terrorism they faced. While overall the book was good the afterward threw me because it started talking about, I suppose, Black on black crime and/or inner city violence, which felt so out of context for the book that it felt like a unnecessary addition, it felt forced and truly out of place. Other than that oddity this is a must read book for anyone trying to understand the civil rights movement and the necessity of Black armed struggle.