African-American Armed Resistance & Firearm Safety/Operation

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Youtube Presentations 

• Deacons for Defense (19 min.) - History and interviews with actual organizational members

• Jerry Martin - Member of Deacons for Defense - This is a full interview with Jerry Martin who was a member of the organization. Great primary source of information. (1.5 hrs.)

• This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible - Author Charles Cobb discusses his book This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed (1 hr. 36 min.)

• We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement - Author Dr. Akinyele Umoja speaks on his book We Will Shoot Back (50 min. - Starts at 7:00)

Online Articles

• “Guns Kept People Alive” During the Civil Rights Movement

• Armed Resistance in the Civil Rights Movement

• Guns Made Civil Rights Possible: Breaking Down the Myth of Nonviolent Change

• Armed for Nonviolence

• The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers had the Weapons

• The Secret History of Guns 

• As NRA Membership Wanes, America’s Largest Black Gun Group is Thriving

• “Black Guns Matter” Focuses on Firearms Education to Decrease Violence

Firearm Safety & Operation Basics

• "The Universal Firearm Safety Rules" (11 min.)

• Introduction to Range Safety and Etiquette (9 min.) - Thinking about going to the shooting range but want to know what it is like ahead of time? Check this out. 

• How to Safely Load and Unload a Semi-Auto Pistol and Magazine (18 min.)

• 5 Common Pistol Shooting Mistakes We See at Classes (13 min.)

Books* 

• "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

• "We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement" by Akinyele Omowale Umoja

• "Negroes With Guns" by Robert F. Williams

• "Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms" by Nicholas Johnson

Organizations 

• National African American Gun Association

• Black Gun Owners Association

• Huey P. Newton Gun Club

• Black Arms Gun Club South Florida

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