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The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement Lance Hill New edition
The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
Lance Hill
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.
400 pages, 21 illustrations, 1 map, notes, bibl., index
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 27, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807857021 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 400 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 159 × 28 mm · 594 g |
| Language | English |