The Deacons for Defense
Subtitle: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780807857021
Subjects: Black studies; Civil rights & citizenship; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Sociology; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Central Southern states; United States - 20th Century; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Deep South; Ku Klux Klan; Martin Luther King; Jonesboro, LA; Bogalusa, LA; segregation; discrimination; civil rights movement; Decons for Defense and Justice; nonviolence; African American freedom movement; Social Science / African-American Studies; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Politics / Current Events
First sentence: EARNEST THOMAS HAD been a fighter all his life.