The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement Hill offers the first detailed history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, a black self-defense organization particularly influential in Louisiana and Mississippi from 1964 to 1967. Frustrated with the policy of nonviolence espoused by Martin Luther King Jr., the Deacons sought a new form of armed resistance to constant threats of violence from whites.

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