Ballots and bullets
Subtitle: black power politics and urban guerrilla warfare in 1968 Cleveland
By: James Robenalt
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books; Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780897337038
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Black power; Police-community relations; Race riots; African Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Watch yourself, Willie"; title: "We will meet violence with violence and lynching with lynching"; title: "We will meet physical force with soul force"; title: "The hate that hate produced"; title: "You nigger pickaninnies, stay out of our schools, this is our neighborhood!"; title: "The ballot or the bullet"; title: "There's no room for a rifle club named after Medgar Evers"; title: "I am on the outside"; title: "The Black Stalin"; title: "Whatever you fear is what you worship"; title: "Their fight is for dignity and work"; title: "A daily battle against depression and hopelessness"; title: "Hough"; title: "Reliability and discretion assured"; title: "Blood will flow in the streets"; title: "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"; title: "He speaks my views"; title: "He desperately needed a victory"; title: "As lambs for the slaughter"; title: "You should establish their unsavory backgrounds"; title: "The voice of madness"; title: "Cleveland: NOW!"; title: "The good news in American cities is coming out of Cleveland"; title: "Having a gun is no crime"; title: "Tow truck in trouble"; title: "This is only the beginning"; title: "A lot of people are going to get killed"; title: "The case against Fred Ahmed Evans is weak"; title: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."