Deacons for Defense Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

Name: Deacons for Defense Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
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ISBN: 9780807857021

ISBN-10: 0807857025

ISBN-13: 9780807857021

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lance Hill

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In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization--the Deacons for Defense and Justice--to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence. With their largest and most famous chapter at the center of a bloody campaign in the Ku Klux Klan stronghold of Bogalusa, Louisiana, the Deacons became a popular symbol of the growing frustration with Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent strategy and a rallying point for a militant working-class movement in the South. Lance Hill offers the first detailed history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, who…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English