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159. “Negroes with Guns”: Armed Self-Defense during the Black Freedom Movement

Sunday, January 9, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Sheraton, Douglas Room

  • Chair: Emilye Crosby, State University of New York College at Geneseo

  • Papers: Civil Rights Historiography and the Question of Self-Defense
    Christopher B. Strain, Florida Atlantic University

    The Ballot and the Bullet: Armed Self-Defense in the Alabama Black Belt, 1965–66
    Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ohio State University

    "The Brothers on the Corner Got my Back": Self-Defense and the Creation of Non-Violent Spaces in Wilson, North Carolina, 1963–70
    Charles W. McKinney Jr., Rhodes College

  • Comment: Emilye Crosby
   
     
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