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Nonviolence dominates the narrative today but that would be a false narrative. It tells the truth about the civil rights not being all about pacifism. It is a very honest and gripping perspective by a worker in the civil rights (freedom) movement in t... Read More
It makes the reading cumbersome at times but i see its purpose. The book offers a part of the historical narrative that the author lived, and that needs to be shared and understood. The author weaves personal tales, history, and context into an easily... Read More
Violent culture loves to make heroes of non violent protesters. black people defending themselves in the system of white supremacy. What application that has for this current political moment of unchecked white supremacist violence, oppression, and ho... Read More
Cons
King’s on words clearly refute this. To attribute king as one that advocated the use on guns is simply wrong and disingenuous.
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Throws new light on how brave activists who adopted non violent tactics to confront heavily armed, violent racist segregationis... Read More
The subtitle doesn't capture the facts that are well presented and documented in the book: that it wasn't the guns themselves ... Read More
I doubt anyone of any ideology will be completely satisfied with the various assertions made in the book, which in my mind is a good thing.
This was a really important book for me to have read, and i am very glad i did, but not for the reasons i expected.
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- This product had a total of 449 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 16 2023.
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As he mentioned sncc didnt have members they had field secretaries
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Although he was a part of the civil rights struggle of the 60s he didnt write a book from his perspective
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By that i mean it is laden with names of people names of organizations places events and dates
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Charles is mentioning historical facts and that takes precedence over telling a nice story
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Nonviolence dominates the narrative today but that would be a false narrative
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Sure nonviolence was practicedparticularly by the heads of the various organizationsbut many black americans had fought in ww1 ww2 and the korean war and they no longer were going to sit idly by as they were beaten bombed and killed
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I too believed that the southern civil rights movement was nothing more than sitins marches and protests met with vicious white hostility that often materialized in the form of physical attacks
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Yes that did happen but the entire movement wasnt captured on television
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