While reading THIS NONVIOLENT STUFF'LL GET YOU KILLED (2014) by Charles E. Cobb, Jr. I note his having mentioned and quoted two prominent black men, who lived in the very small area of Mississippi, where I was born.
Although I did not know either man, due to having grown up in Missouri, it is highly likely, indeed quite probable, that a number of near relatives knew of them both. Cobb writes:
"Many in the South who considered themselves part of the nonviolent civil rights movement saw no contradiction in saying they were part of it while they were cleaning their guns. Hartman Turnbow, a black Mississippi farmer and civil rights leader in Holmes county who used his Winchester rifle to drive attacking night riders away from his home, told SNCC organizers the following morning: 'I wasn't being nonviolent; I was protecting my family.'
P. xvii, "Preface to Paperback Edition"
"Hartman Turnbow, a black Mississippi farmer and community leader, was a case in point. Turnbow welcomed the presence movement organizers in Holmes County and even invited organizers to the area himself.... Turnbow also 'traveled armed.' With tragic foresight, Turnbow bluntly warned Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1964, This nonviolent stuff ain't no good. It'll get ya killed."
P.7. "Introduction "
"Canton, Mississippi , businessman and movement supporter C. O. Chinn (who usually carried a pistol in his pants and sometimes wore one holstered in plain sight on his hip) went a step further: he instructed friends and family members to chaperone CORE organizers wherever went in rural areas of the county and sometimes even in town."
P.8. "Introduction "
Saturday, March 18, 2017
THIS NONVIOLENT STUFF'LL GET YOU KILLED
While reading THIS NONVIOLENT STUFF'LL GET YOU KILLED (2014) by Charles E. Cobb, Jr. I note his having mentioned and quoted two prominent black men, who lived in the very small area of Mississippi, where I was born.
Although I did not know either man, due to having grown up in Missouri, it is highly likely, indeed quite probable, that a number of near relatives knew of them both. Cobb writes:
"Many in the South who considered themselves part of the nonviolent civil rights movement saw no contradiction in saying they were part of it while they were cleaning their guns. Hartman Turnbow, a black Mississippi farmer and civil rights leader in Holmes county who used his Winchester rifle to drive attacking night riders away from his home, told SNCC organizers the following morning: 'I wasn't being nonviolent; I was protecting my family.'
P. xvii, "Preface to Paperback Edition"
"Hartman Turnbow, a black Mississippi farmer and community leader, was a case in point. Turnbow welcomed the presence movement organizers in Holmes County and even invited organizers to the area himself.... Turnbow also 'traveled armed.' With tragic foresight, Turnbow bluntly warned Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1964, This nonviolent stuff ain't no good. It'll get ya killed."
P.7. "Introduction "
"Canton, Mississippi , businessman and movement supporter C. O. Chinn (who usually carried a pistol in his pants and sometimes wore one holstered in plain sight on his hip) went a step further: he instructed friends and family members to chaperone CORE organizers wherever went in rural areas of the county and sometimes even in town."
P.8. "Introduction "
