The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights
(Part of the New Perspectives on the History of the South Series and New Perspectives on the History of the South Series)
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The Spirit and the Shotgun explores the role of armed self-defense in tandem with nonviolent protests in the African American freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. Confronted with violent attacks by the Ku Klux Klan and other racist terrorists, southern blacks adopted Martin Luther King's philosophy of nonviolent resistance as a tactic, Wendt argues, but at the same time armed themselves out of necessity and pride. Sophisticated self-defense units...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813030188
ISBN13:9780813030180
Release Date:February 2007
Publisher:University Press of Florida
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"
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