Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Hill, Lance E. (Lance Edward), 1950- author.

Title The Deacons for Defense : armed resistance and the civil rights movement / Lance Hill
Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
©2004

Copies

Description 1 online resource (x, 363 pages) : illustrations
Contents Beginnings -- The deacons are born -- In the New York Times -- Not Selma -- On to Bogalusa -- The spring campaign -- With a single bullet -- Victory -- Expanding in the Bayou State -- Mississippi chapters -- Heading north -- Black power-last days -- Conclusion: the myth of nonviolence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-351) and index
Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 8, 2021)
Subject Deacons for Defense and Justice -- History
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Deacons for Defense and Justice fast
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) fast
Subject African American civil rights workers -- Louisiana -- Jonesboro -- History -- 20th century
Self-defense -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Political violence -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
African American civil rights workers
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Political violence
Race relations
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Ethnische Beziehungen
Selbstverteidigung
Civil Rights Movement.
Politiek geweld.
Zelfverdediging.
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations
Louisiana -- Race relations
Mississippi -- Race relations
Subject Louisiana
Louisiana -- Jonesboro
Mississippi
Southern States
USA -- Südstaaten
Schwärze
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003021779
ISBN 0807863602
9780807863602