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The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, L. (Lance)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Area Studies: American Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Area Studies: American Studies.
- Summary:
- Hill offers the first detailed history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, a black self-defense organization particularly influential in Louisiana and Mississippi from 1964 to 1967. Frustrated with the policy of nonviolence espoused by Martin Luther King Jr., the Deacons sought a new form of armed resistance to constant threats of violence from whites.
- ISBN:
- 9780807857021
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