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The Deacons for Defense

Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

by Lance Hill ยท 2006

ISBN: 0807857025 9780807857021

Category: Political Science / Civil Rights

Page count: 363

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 fr