The Deacons for Defense

The Deacons for Defense
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 406
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ISBN-10 : 0807857025
ISBN-13 : 9780807857021
Rating : 4/5 (021 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Deacons for Defense by : Lance Hill

Download or read book The Deacons for Defense written by Lance Hill and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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


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