The unwritten history of the fight for civil rights, which refuses to shy away from the armed defense of the nonviolent protest movement. Contains a lot of lessons for activists, and some thoroughly interesting (at times terrifying and horrible) stories of the struggle. There's some levity, too; Cobb is insistent on what he calls in the Afterword, "guerilla history" and quotes many big personalities who wouldn't normally find their way into a history of the civil rights battles prior to 1960. It's chock full of those accounts, and that makes the reading slow, here and there, but I highly recommend this book.