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Some books 📚 for every time one of your elected officials tries to say the Civil Rights Movement was only about “non-violence”:

📖: “This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible”
by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
You can read an excerpt from Charles E. Cobb’s book here: “Guns made civil rights possible: Breaking down the myth of nonviolent change”: salon.com/2014/06/14/gun…
📖: “We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement” by Akinyele Umoja
📖: “The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement” by Lance Edward Hill
📖: “Negroes with Guns” by Robert F. Williams
If anyone else knows any other books that relates to armed self-defense during the Civil Rights Movement, please feel free to add.
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