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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.
Feb 27, 2006 · 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.
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The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed African-American self-defense group founded in November 1964, during the civil rights era in the United States, in the mill town of Jonesboro, Louisiana.
Nov 7, 2013 · The Deacons for Defense. by. Lance E. Hill. Publication date. 2004. Topics. Deacons for Defense and Justice -- History., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- History -- 20th century., African American civil rights workers -- Louisiana -- Jonesboro -- History -- 20th century., Self-defense -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century ...
Lance Hill offers the first detailed history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice. 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.
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Civil Rights Act, the Deacons’ militant politics and armed actions forced a pivotal showdown in Bogalusa between the government and southern segregationists. Although the Deacons began as a simple self-defense guard to compensate for the lack of police protection, they soon developed into a highly visible
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Mar 1, 2005 · Lance Hill's thoroughly researched study should help rescue this important grassroots organization from obscurity. Like recent work by Timothy Tyson, Akinyele Umoja, and Simon Wendt, The Deacons for Defense reveals the complexity of a movement that “did not march in unison and speak with one voice” (p. 15).
