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The Deacons for Defense
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The Deacons for Defense Paperback - 2006

by Hill, Lance

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  • Title The Deacons for Defense
  • Author Hill, Lance
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Date 2006-02-27
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780807857021
  • ISBN 9780807857021 / 0807857025
  • Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.96 x 0.99 in (23.62 x 17.68 x 2.51 cm)
  • Reading level 1530
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003021779
  • Dewey Decimal Code 323.119

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First line

EARNEST THOMAS HAD been a fighter all his life.

From the jacket flap

Hill offers the first detailed history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, a black self-defense organization particularly influential in Louisiana and Mississippi from 1964 to 1967. Frustrated with the policy of nonviolence espoused by Martin Luther King Jr., the Deacons sought a new form of armed resistance to constant threats of violence from whites.

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