This Nonviolent Stuffll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

Writer and journalist Charles Cobb discusses his new book, This Nonviolent Stuff ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Speaker Biography: Charles E. Charlie Cobb, Jr. was a Mississippi field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 19621967 working primarily in the Mississippi Delta. A founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Cobb was a foreign affairs reporter for National Public Radio and from 19851997 a member of the editorial staff of National Geographic magazine the first black writer to become one of that magazine s staff writers. In July 2008, Cobb was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit