The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights MovementIn 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 fr |
Contents
Beginnings | 10 |
2 | 30 |
Not Selma | 63 |
6 | 89 |
7 | 110 |
With a Single Bullet | 129 |
9 | 150 |
Mississippi Chapters | 184 |
Heading North | 216 |
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The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement Lance Hill Limited preview - 2005 |
The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement Lance Edward Hill Limited preview - 2004 |
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