This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Firearms, law and legislation
Gun control
Self-defense
Nineteen sixties
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Civil rights movements, united states
Firearms
Civil rights movements
African americans, civil rights
Civil rights
Law and legislation
African Americans
History
"Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self-defense," King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as "an arsenal." Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced the…
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