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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 400
Utgivningsdatum: 2006-02-01
Upplaga: New ed
Förlag: The University of North Carolina Press
Illustrationer: 21 illustrations, 1 map, notes, bibl., index
Dimensioner: 236 x 177 x 25 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
Komponenter: 149:B&W 6.14 x 9.21 in or 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN: 9780807857021

The Deacons for Defense

Name: The Deacons for Defense
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Author: Lance Hill
ISBN: 9780807857021

Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

av Lance Hill

Häftad, Engelska, 2006-02-01

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In 1964, a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, formed an armed self-defense organization to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence. Lance Hill offers the first detailed history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, who grew to several hundred members and twenty-one chapters in the Deep South, and led some of the most successful local campaigns in the civil rights movement. He constructs a compelling historical narrative of a working-class armed self-defense movement that defied the entrenched nonviolent leadership and played a crucial role in compelling the federal government to neutralize the Ku Klux Klan and uphold civil rights and liberties.

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Deacons for Defense

Lance Hill

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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"An impressive account.... [A]lso a forceful... challenge to the shelfful of civil rights histories that tell a story in which nonviolence was indeed an essential and defining quality of the Southern movement's success.... An important corrective to popular simplifications." - David J. Garrow, Chicago Tribune "Hill has done a service by rescuing the Deacons from oblivion." - The Nation"

Lance Hill is adjunct professor of history at Tulane University. Contact the author by email at lhill@tulane.edu.