The deacons for defense

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Offers a history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice who led some of the successful local campaigns in the civil rights movement. The author provides a narrative of a working-class armed self-defense movement that played a crucial role in compelling the federal government to neutralize the Ku Klux Klan and uphold civil rights and liberties.



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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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 28 februari 2006

Aantal pagina's: 400

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Lance Hill

Tweede Auteur: Lance Hill

Hoofduitgeverij: The University Of North Carolina Press

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

Editie: New edition

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 156 mm

Product lengte: 235 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 156 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 235 mm

Verpakking lengte: 235 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 590 g

EAN: 9780807857021

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