The Deacons for Defense by Lance Hill

The Deacons for Defense

Lance Hill

363 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race informative reflective slow-paced
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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 wo...

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