Acknowledgment
Excerpted with permission from This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, by Charles E. Cobb Jr. Available from Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Book Group. Copyright © 2014.
About the Author
Charles E. Cobb Jr. is a former activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and a Freedom School organizer. He is a current visiting professor at Brown University and serves as senior analyst at allAfrica.com. He is author of This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (2014) and On the Road to Freedom, a Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail (2008).