This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed by Charles E. Cobb

Author:Charles E. Cobb [Cobb, Charles E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780465080953
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

A Civil War–era card depicting a rebelling slave. Open resistance to slavery was rarely, if ever, nonviolent. (Library of Congress)

African American troops fighting for the Union in Dutch Gap, Virginia, during the Civil War. The U.S. Army reluctantly organized the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) in 1863. Its members saw action in every major theater of the war; twenty-five were awarded a Medal of Honor. (Library of Congress)

An illustration of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, an all-black regiment, charging Confederate fortifications near Charleston, South Carolina, on July 18, 1863. Memorialized in the film Glory, this and other acts of valor demonstrated to a skeptical nation that blacks were fully capable of effective, organized armed struggle. (Library of Congress)

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