It has been a long time i wont spend a long time doing that. I want to make some comments about the actual content of the why in outline for you think guns made the Civil Rights Movement possible. And then i will sit down with rex and pursue that conversation and finally take questions from you ill in the audience from you in the audience. That is a lot to do in an hour or so. , in some ways, my thermination to address question of how the Southern Freedom Movement is portrayed. I have long been dissatisfied with what might be called the canon with regards to the Southern Freedom Movement. , when i began this book, sort of neatly and with a great deal of irony, put the me. N in perspective for martinboils down to standing up and the white folks seeing the light and saving the day. That, more or less, is my complaint about much of the narrative. There is a newer body of scholarship emerging, younger historian emily crosby, leslie hogan, they were here yesterday to represent that newer ap