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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.Hill, Lance is the author of 'Deacons for Defense Armed Resistance And the Civil Rights Movement', published 2006 under ISBN 9780807857021 and ISBN 0807857025.
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