Black Lives and Guns (with Nicholas Johnson)
Jul 03, 2020•1 hr 2 min
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Episode description
From Frederick Douglass's advice to keep "a good revolver" handy as defense against slave catchers to the armed self-protection of Monroe, North Carolina, blacks against the KKK chronicled in Robert Williams's Negroes with Guns, it is clear that owning firearms was commonplace in the black community.
Do blacks have a different view on gun control? Who was Don Kates and how did he fight for the second amendment?
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