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

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

by Lance Hill (Author)

Synopsis

Offers a history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice who led some of the successful local campaigns in the civil rights movement. The author provides a narrative of a working-class armed self-defense movement that played a crucial role in compelling the federal government to neutralize the Ku Klux Klan and uphold civil rights and liberties.

$34.82

Quantity

10 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: annotated edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 15 Feb 2006

ISBN 10: 0807857025
ISBN 13: 9780807857021