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

The Deacons for Defense

Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

2004 • 406 pages

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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