Eye for an Eye: The Role of Armed Resistance ... - Freedom Archives

ecognize the existence of armed resistance and make mention of its influence on
Movement organizations . August Meier and Elliot Rudwick's CORE : A Study In
the Civil Rights Movement 1942-1968 , provided numerous occurrences on the
internal debate within the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) on the question of
adhering to non-violence or practicing armed self-defense as a deterrent to racist
violence . Clayborne Carson's In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the
1960's relates SNCC's movement from its original adherence to non-violence as
the sole method of the Movement and factors for the abandonment of this posi-
tion. Both of the above works mention the presence of armed activists in local
Southern communities and their influence on SNCC's and CORE's embrace of
armed self-defense . Neither of these texts describe what effect armed resistance
had on local struggles to achieve human and civil rights.
Black Protest History Documents_ and Analyses 11619 to the Present,
edited by Joanne Grant, Negro Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century, edited
by Frances Broderick and August Meier, and The Eyes in the Prize Civil Rights
Reader: Documents Speeches and First hand Accounts from the Black Freedom
Struggle. 1954-1990 , edited by Clayborne Carson, David Garrow, Gerald Gill,
Vincent Harding and Darlene Clark-Hines, are three of the most important an-
thologies of the post World War H struggle by people ofAfrican descent in the
U.S.A. for human rights, social justice, and political power. All of these works
possess essential primary sources from the Civil and Human Rights Movements
in North America. These works also reflect the general treatment of the literature
on the role of armed resistance in the post World War II movements for social an . :
political change in the American South. While they share primary source evidem .