Eye for an Eye: The Role of Armed Resistance ... - Freedom Archives
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17 . M . S . H<strong>an</strong>dler, "Milit<strong>an</strong>cy Grows, CORE Aides Warn : Convention Delegates<br />
Fear Negro Will Strike Back, " New York Times (June 28, 1963), 12 ; Meier <strong>an</strong>d<br />
Rudwick, CORE . 263-264, 296.<br />
18 . Meier <strong>an</strong>d Rudwick, CORE . 297-298 .<br />
19 . Dennis interviewed by Dent ; Mendelsohn, <strong>The</strong> M<strong>an</strong>ure . 112-128 .<br />
20 . "FBI Director Tells Pl<strong>an</strong>s <strong>for</strong> Our State : No Protection Pl<strong>an</strong>ned <strong>for</strong> Civil<br />
Rights Workers Here," Jackson Clarion-Ledger (July 11, 1964), IA ; Dittmer,<br />
Local People. 248-251 .<br />
21 . Ibid, 248-249 ; Dave Dennis interviewed in Voices <strong>of</strong> <strong>Freedom</strong> . 194 ; Dave<br />
Dennis interviewed in M Soul is Rested , 278.<br />
22. Dennis interviewed by Dent; Dennis interviewed in Voids <strong>of</strong> <strong>Freedom</strong> . 195 ;<br />
Dennis interviewed in My Soul is Rested . 277-278 ; Meier <strong>an</strong>d Rudwick, CORE .<br />
298 . After <strong>Freedom</strong> Summer, Dennis returned to Louisi<strong>an</strong>a where he worked<br />
closely with the Deacons <strong>for</strong> Defense <strong>an</strong>d Justice. <strong>The</strong> association <strong>of</strong> Dennis with<br />
the Deacons, considered by m<strong>an</strong>y after 1964 to be the armed wing <strong>of</strong> the Southern<br />
movement, further demonstrates his disassociation with nonviolence <strong>an</strong>d his<br />
embrace <strong>of</strong> self-defense .<br />
23 . Doug McAdam, <strong>Freedom</strong> Summer. (New York : Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press,<br />
1988),255-256 .<br />
24. Len Holt, <strong>The</strong> Summer That Didn't End: <strong>The</strong> Stogy <strong>of</strong> the Mississippi Civil<br />
Rights Project <strong>of</strong> 1964 . (New York : Da Capo, 1992), 12 .<br />
25 . Winson Hudson interviewed by Tom Dent, Harmony, Mississippi, August 1,<br />
1979 ; John Herbers, "School Test Nears in Harmony, Miss .," New York Times<br />
(August 16, 1964), 58 ; Dittmer, Local People, 256-257 .<br />
26 . Winson Hudson interviewed by Dent.<br />
27 . Ibid ; Jerome Smith interviewed by Dent, New Orle<strong>an</strong>s, September 23, 1983 ;<br />
Nicholas Von H<strong>of</strong>fm<strong>an</strong>, Mississi0i Notebook. (New York : David White, 1964),<br />
94-95 . Mississippi Notebook has photographs by Henry Herr Gill <strong>of</strong> Harmony<br />
Blacks defending their community with guns, including Harmony youth participating<br />
in <strong>an</strong> armed watch <strong>of</strong> the Harmony Community Center.