The Deacons for Defense Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement 1st edition by Lance Hill ISBN 0807857025 978-0807828472
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ISBN 10: 0807857025
ISBN 13: 978-0807828472
Author: Lance Hill
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 from vigilante and police violence. With their largest and most famous chapter at the center of a bloody campaign in the Ku Klux Klan stronghold of Bogalusa, Louisiana, the Deacons became a popular symbol of the growing frustration with Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent strategy and a rallying point for a militant working-class movement in the South.
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. In his analysis of this important yet long-overlooked organization, Hill challenges what he calls “the myth of nonviolence–the idea that a united civil rights movement achieved its goals through nonviolent direct action led by middle-class and religious leaders. In contrast, Hill 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 Klan and uphold civil rights and liberties.
Table of contents:
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Beginnings
CHAPTER 2: The Deacons Are Born
CHAPTER 3: In the New York Times
CHAPTER 4: Not Selma
CHAPTER 5: On to Bogalusa
CHAPTER 6: The Bogalusa Chapter
CHAPTER 7: The Spring Campaign
CHAPTER 8: With a Single Bullet
CHAPTER 9: Victory
CHAPTER 10: Expanding in the Bayou State
CHAPTER 11: Mississippi Chapters
CHAPTER 12: Heading North
CHAPTER 13: Black Power – Last Days
Conclusion: The Myth of Nonviolence
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