Title The Deacons for Defense : armed resistance and the civil rights movement [Hoopla electronic resource] / Lance Hill.

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Unabridged.

Publication Info.	[United States] : Tantor Audio, 2020.
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Description	1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 03 min.)) : digital.
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Performer	Read by Bill Andrew Quinn.
Summary	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.
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject	Deacons for Defense and Justice -- History.
	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.
	Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	Southern States -- Race relations.
	Louisiana -- Race relations.
	Mississippi -- Race relations.
Added Author	Quinn, Bill Andrew.
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ISBN	9781705276792 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
	1705276792 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
Music No.	MWT13578479

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