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Author:

Wendt, Simon.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xi, 279 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--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--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-266) and index.

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.

Series:

New perspectives on the history of the South

ISBN:

9780813030180 (alk. paper)
0813030188 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70630403

LCCN:

2006022835

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)