This chapter focuses on the March on Raleigh by angry blacks in Oxford convinced Robert Teel would not receive justice. Tyson argues that, far from being united in method, some of the marchers such as Ben Chavis were inclined toward non-violent economic pressures, whereas others, especially Vietnam War veterans, believed only violence would get the attention of the white power establishment.
What do you make of Tyson’s view, reflected in several places throughout the book, that the Civil Rights struggle did not succeed in ending the Jim Crow era because of non-violent civil disobedience alone, but only in conjunction with terrorist activities that propelled whites into responsiveness? Are there lessons to be learned in waging our current war against Islamic terrorists?
What is the importance of Lonnie Field’s mule to the march? To the effectiveness of this chapter?
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