Title: The spirit and the shotgun : armed resistance and the struggle for civil rights /
Authors: Wendt, Simon
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 2007
Subjects: African Americans Civil rights Southern States History; Civil rights movements Southern States History; African American civil rights workers Southern States History; African American political activists Southern States History; Government, Resistance to Southern States History; Political violence Southern States History; Nonviolence Southern States History; African Americans Southern States Politics and government; Black power Southern States History; Southern States Race relations History
Contents: Black self-defense and the emergence of nonviolent protest -- Gandhi, God, and guns in Tuscaloosa -- The Deacons for Defense and Justice -- Armed resistance and the Mississippi movement -- Black power and white fear -- Black manhood and the end of nonviolence -- Conclusion.