The Deacons For Defense: Armed Resistance And The Civil Rights Movement
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| Originally published | 2004 |
| Authors | Lance Edward Hill |
| Genres | Zine |
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| ID | 2437881 |
About The Deacons For Defense: Armed Resistance And The Civil Rights Movement
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. . . .