Ballots and bullets : Black Power politics and urban guerrilla warfare in 1968 Cleveland

Author

James D Robenalt

Call Number

• 305.896 R638 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chicago, Illinois : Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press Incorporated, [2018]

Physical Description

376 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Contents

• "Watch yourself, Willie"
• "We will meet violence with violence and lynching with lynching"
• "We will meet physical force with soul force"
• "The hate that hate produced"
• "You nigger pickaninnies, stay out of our schools, this is our neighborhood!"
• "The ballot or the bullet"
• "There's no room for a rifle club named after Medgar Evers"
• "I am on the outside"
• "The Black Stalin"
• "Whatever you fear is what you worship"
• "Their fight is for dignity and work"
• "A daily battle against depression and hopelessness"
• "Hough"
• "Reliability and discretion assured"
• "Blood will flow in the streets"
• "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"
• "He speaks my views"
• "He desperately needed a victory"
• "As lambs for the slaughter"
• "You should establish their unsavory backgrounds"
• "The voice of madness"
• "Cleveland: NOW!"
• "The good news in American cities is coming out of Cleveland"
• "Having a gun is no crime"
• "Tow truck in trouble"
• "This is only the beginning"
• "A lot of people are going to get killed"
• "The case against Fred Ahmed Evans is weak"
• "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."