This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed - Plot & Excerpts
Today we return! We return from the slavery of uniform which the world’s madness demanded us to don to the freedom of civil garb. We stand again to look America squarely in the face and call a spade a spade. We sing: This country of ours, despite all its better souls have done and dreamed, is yet a shameful land. It lynches… . It disenfranchises its own citizens… . It encourages ignorance… . It steals from us… . It insults us… . We return. We return from fighting… . We return fighting… . Make way for democracy! —W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919 On the cold Monday night of February 25, 1946, armed black men assembled on rooftops in Columbia, Tennessee, intently watching the streets below. Their eyes were focused on the first block of East Eighth Street, which housed small businesses and was the Main Street of the town’s black community. The area was called the Bottom by the black community and Mink Slide by whites. Lynch-mob fervor had been building in town all day, and when it finally blazed into fierce and furious fire, East Eighth Street would briefly be turned into a battleground.
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