This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

In this book, Charles E. Cobb Jr. reveals the vital role that guns and armed self-defense played in protecting Black communities, activists, and nonviolent civil rights workers from white supremacist violence during the Southern Freedom Movement.

Drawing from personal experiences, interviews with participants, and historical examples of World War II veterans, rural activists, and self-defense groups, Cobb challenges the dominant narrative of the civil rights era by highlighting the paradoxical partnership between nonviolence and the Second Amendment.

He argues that firearms enabled the survival and liberation efforts, making the movement's achievements possible amid constant threats.