About
Speaker: Charles Cobb
Date: April 25, 2016
Location: Appalachian State University
Description: In his presentation “This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible,” Charles E. Cobb, Jr. explores the complex relationship between the civil right movement's early commitment to non-violence and the long tradition of African American armed self-defense against the terror of white supremacy.