[PDF.89ri] The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

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

[PDF.ah72] The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

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 | #47172 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2006-02-27 |  2006-02-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.06 x.91 x6.14l,1.31 | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| An Obscure Facet of the Civil Rights Movement|By James P. Patuto|The Deacons for Defense story has been buried since the mid sixties. The reasons for this loss are many. The Deacons don't fit the stereotype promulgated by the orthodox civil rights leaders and historians, nor does it particularly fit with the "conservative" historian view that anti-black violence largely was c| |"This is a significant book."|"The North Carolina Historical "

"An engaging writer, Hill has written a graceful book that fills an important gap in civil rights scholarship."|"Florida Historical Quarterly"

"Hill's ground-breaking, histor

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. With their largest and most famous chapter at the center of a bloody campaign in the Ku Klux Klan stronghold of Bogalusa, Louisiana, the Deacons became a popular symbol of the growing fr...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement   |  Lance Hill.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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