Autumn Ryle
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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
- How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
- By: Charles E. Cobb Jr.
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story5 out of 5 stars 104
In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr., describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent history of black struggle in the US
- By Maylyn B. on 06-29-21
- This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
- How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
- By: Charles E. Cobb Jr.
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
The part of the story that gets left out.
Reviewed: 06-22-22
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed tells the story of a major facet of the American Civil Rights Movement that has largely been forgotten by the public at large. The mainstream narrative of the Civil Rights Movement has largely been reduced down to stories of peaceful protest and nonviolent activism, but I believe that the powers that be have rather intentionally warped or obfuscated the stories of the armed wing of the Movement that made such activism possible.
This work seems to be thoroughly researched. I also appreciate that it is so accessible, rather than being bogged down in impenetrable academic terminology.
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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
- How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
- By: Charles E Cobb Jr.
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story5 out of 5 stars 95
Visiting Martin Luther King Jr., at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend's Montgomery, Alabama home as "an arsenal".
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent history of black struggle in the US
- By Maylyn B. on 06-29-21
- This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
- How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
- By: Charles E Cobb Jr.
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
The part of the story that gets left out.
Reviewed: 06-22-22
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed tells the story of a major facet of the American Civil Rights Movement that has largely been forgotten by the public at large. The mainstream narrative of the Civil Rights Movement has largely been reduced down to stories of peaceful protest and nonviolent activism, but I believe that the powers that be have rather intentionally warped or obfuscated the stories of the armed wing of the Movement that made such activism possible.
This work seems to be thoroughly researched. I also appreciate that it is so accessible, rather than being bogged down in impenetrable academic terminology.
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The Will to Change
- Men, Masculinity, and Love
- By: bell hooks, Ross Gay
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,590
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,344
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,339
Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from understanding themselves. In The Will to Change, bell hooks provides a compassionate guide for men of all ages and identities to understand how to be in touch with their feelings, and how to express versus repress the emotions that are a fundamental part of who we are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A unique call to an ethic of creative love
- By Forrest Aldridge on 09-26-20
- The Will to Change
- Men, Masculinity, and Love
- By: bell hooks, Ross Gay
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
I should have read this book years ago
Reviewed: 04-07-22
My one regret about reading The Will To Change is that I did not do so sooner. I think that, had I read this book in my teen years, it would have kept me from the reactionary, anti-feminist doom spiral that dominated my adolescence.
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