On the fifth episode of Technology's Storyteller's, host Bucky Stanton speaks with Dr. Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. In this episode she outlines a captivating and important history of black self-defense in America. Selika further discusses the technology of the gun and debates about black self-armament today. You can find her historical work in the edited volume, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century America: Closing Ranks and in her new forthcoming book, Honorable Men: The Deacons for Defense and Justice and Armed Self Defense in Louisiana. 

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