The spirit and the shotgun : armed resistance and the struggle for civil rights / Simon Wendt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wendt, Simon.

Series:

New perspectives on the history of the South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Black power.

History.

Politics and government.

Nonviolence.

Political violence.

African American political activists.

African American civil rights workers.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Southern States.

African American civil rights workers--Southern States--History--20th century.

African American political activists--Southern States--History--20th century.

Government, Resistance to--Southern States--History--20th century.

Government, Resistance to.

Political violence--Southern States--History--20th century.

Nonviolence--Southern States--History--20th century.

African Americans--Southern States--Politics and government--20th century.

Black power--Southern States--History--20th century.

Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xi, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2007]

Contents:

Black self-defense and the emergence of nonviolent protest

Gandhi, God, and guns in Tuscaloosa

The Deacons for Defense and Justice

Armed resistance and the Mississippi movement

Black power and white fear

Black manhood and the end of nonviolence

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-266) and index.

ISBN:

0813030188

OCLC:

70630403

Publisher Number:

9780813030180