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Ballots and bullets, Black Power politics and urban guerrilla warfare in 1968 Cleveland, James Robenalt

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-364) and index

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Ballots and bullets

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James Robenalt

Black Power politics and urban guerrilla warfare in 1968 Cleveland

"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"