The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Simon Wendt

New Perspectives on the History of the South

The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Simon Wendt

279 pages hardcover 2007

3 editions

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The Spirit and the Shotgun explores the role of armed self-defense in tandem with nonviolent protests in the African American freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. Confronted with violent attacks by the Ku Klux Klan and other racist terrorists...

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