The Deacons for Defense - 9780807828472
Un libro in lingua di Hill Lance E. edito da Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2004
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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, 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. 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Deacons for Defense
- Sottotitolo: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Hill Lance E.
- Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
- Collana: Univ of North Carolina Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Gennaio '04
- Genere: POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : African American civil rights workers Louisiana Jonesboro History 20th century Self-defense Political aspects Southern States History 20th century Political violence Southern States History 20th century
- Pagine: 416
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 158 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0807828475
- EAN-13: 9780807828472