The spirit and the shotgun : armed resistance and the struggle for civil rights / Simon Wendt.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wendt, Simon
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2007], ©2007.
Series:New perspectives on the history of the South.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African American civil rights workers > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African American political activists > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Government, Resistance to > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Political violence > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Nonviolence > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Southern States > Politics and government > 20th century.
Black power > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xi, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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.