Luke’s Reviews > This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible > Status Update

Samuel Bowers, the leader of the Klan group that had murdered CORE workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman in Philadelphia, Mississippi, was from a prominent Louisiana family and had studied engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Celebrating MLK Day by getting back into the saddle with this. It's tough reading even without the massive health issues I've been having the past week, but it's better than wasting time on the whitewashing shils feeling the need to mewl and puke all over social media today.

Fifty-three people in Yazoo City had signed a petition in favor of school desegregation. The Citizens' Council arranged for the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all fifty-three to be published in the local newspaper as a full-page advertisement.

The "essence of the liberal position [..."] was that "black people didn't deserve equal rights, but they did deserve a safe environment in which to work for white people."

One delegate, Reverend Jotham W. Horton, stood in the doorway waving a white handkerchief while crying out to police, "I beseech you to stop firing. We are noncombatants. If you want to arrest us, make any arrest you please, but we are not prepared to defend ourselves." A policeman shouted back, "We don't want prisoners, you have all got to die." Horton was then shot and killed. (New Orleans, 1886)

There is no Spartacus in the romanticization of U.S. history.

A story Stokely Carmichael liked to tell was of bringing an elderly woman to vote in Lowndes County, Alabama: "She had to be 80 years old and going to vote for the first time in her life...That ol' lady came up to us, went into her bag, and produced this enormous, rusty Civil War-looking old pistol. 'Best you hol' this for me, son. I'ma go cast my vote now.'"