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Another case of use of arms in civil rights struggle

Posted by David Hardy · 5 November 2006 08:03 PM

From the obit of Samuel Bowers, the Klansman who died while serving a life term for murder:

"When the Dahmer family awoke to honking horns in the pre-dawn hours that January [1966] morning, two carloads of Klansmen were waiting outside. They firebombed Dahmer when he exited the home, according to court testimony during a four-day trial in Forrest County Circuit Court in 1998.

Dahmer was able keep the Klansmen at bay with a shotgun while his family fled, but flames had already seared his lungs and he died in his wife's arms about 12 hours later."

· civil rights struggle

1 Comment

rwbazillion | November 6, 2006 1:27 AM

There was the Deacons for Defense which was a black group that defended civil rights protesters, who used non-violent methods against the KKK.

In fact if it weren't for blacks with guns the civil rights movement would have been destroyed by violent opposition.

Unfortunately, this aspect of civil rights history has been swept under the rug to promote non-violence.