The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement by Lance Hill

The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

Lance Hill

363 pages digital 2004

2 editions

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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 wo...

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