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Produkt: Fachbuch
The Deacons for Defense
Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
Verlag:
Tantor Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35031591
EAN: 9798200182961
Erhältlich:
Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Fr, 13.11.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 56.50
Beschreibung
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. 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. In contrast, Hill constructs a compelling historical narrative of a working-class armed self-defense movement that defied the entrenched nonviolent leadership and played a crucial role in compelling the federal government to neutralize the Klan and uphold civil rights and liberties.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Bill Andrew Quinn
- Lance Hill
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2020
Format
- Produkt
Detailformat
- MP3