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Lance Hill, "The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement".
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | english | ISBN: 0807828475 | edition: 2004 | PDF | 400 Pages | 12 Mb
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.