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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Johnson, Nicholas, 1959-     Subjects     African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- History.     Firearms ownership -- United States -- History.     Firearms -- United States -- Use in crime prevention -- History.     Self-defense -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Johnson, Nicholas, 1959-       by title:      Negroes and the gun ...         MARC Display

Negroes and the gun [electronic resource] : the Black tradition of arms / by Nicholas Johnson. by Johnson, Nicholas, 1959- Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2014. Subjects African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- History.   Firearms ownership -- United States -- History.   Firearms -- United States -- Use in crime prevention -- History.   Self-defense -- United States -- History. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=F9386B9E-18D9-4205-AB41-57363AFA0882 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{F9386B9E-18D9-4205-AB41-57363AFA0882}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781616148409 (electronic bk.) 1616148403 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Chronicling the underappreciated Black tradition of bearing arms for self-defense, law professor Nicholas Johnson presents an array of examples reaching back to the pre-Civil War era that demonstrate a willingness of African American men and women to use firearms when necessary to defend their families and communities. From Frederick Douglass's advice to keep "a good revolver" handy as defense against slave catchers to the armed Black men who protected Thurgood Marshall, it is clear that owning firearms was commonplace in the Black community. Johnson points out that this story has been submerged because it is hard to reconcile with the dominant narrative of nonviolence during the civil rights era. His book, however, resolves that tension by showing how the Black tradition of arms maintained and demanded a critical distinction between private self-defense and political violence. In the last two chapters, Johnson addresses the unavoidable issue of young Black men with guns and the toll that gun violence takes on many in the inner city. He shows how complicated this issue is by highlighting the surprising diversity of views on gun ownership in the black community. In fact, recent Supreme Court affirmations of the right to bear arms resulted from cases led by Black plaintiffs. Surprising and informative, this well-researched book strips away many stock assumptions of conventional wisdom on the issue of guns and the Black freedom struggle"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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