Today, African-American self-defense tactics in the long American Civil Rights Movement is an often overlook aspect of it as it directly contradicts the traditional narrative about the movement. It emphaticizes the importance of nonviolence even with the widespread occurrence of brutal sexual violence and murders. Both widely and easily debunked by historical sources the movement was not successful because of only the practice of nonviolence. In fact, African-Americans owning guns as method of self-defense was crucial in ensuring meetings can occur regarding talks of boycott or plans against injustices in the South. Danielle McGuire expresses this notion when she recounted the story of Rosa Parks’s grandfather, Sylvester. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
