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6 . "If White Man Shoots at Negro, We Will Shoot Back," Nashville Runner . Vo1.
LXXXVII No . 266, February 17, 1964 .
7 . Fred Zimmerman, "More Dixie Negroes Buy Arms to Retaliate Against White
Attacks", Wall Street Journal, Vol. CL, No. 7, (July 12,1965), 1 .
8. Cole, interview by author.
9 . Willie Morris, Yazoo : Integration in a Deep Southern Town . (New York: Harper
Magazine Press, 1971), 62-63 .
10 . Ibid ; Memorial Program for Rudy Shields, dated March 8, 1987, Yazoo,
Mississippi .
11 . Evers, Evers, 133-134.
12 . Cole, interview by author.
13 . James Nix, interviewed by Sarah Rowe, 1993, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, The
Mississippi Oral History Program of the University of Southern Mississippi ;
James Nix, interview by author, tape recording, Laurel, Mississippi, September
20, 1994 .
14 . Gwendolyn Hall, "Jonesboro: The Red River Valley Again" (unpublished
manuscript), 1-4, Box 1, Folder 7, Gwendolyn Hall Papers, Amistad Research
Center, Tulane University ; Herman Porter, "An Interview with Deacon for Defense",
The Militant . Vol . 29, No . 42 (November 22, 1965), 1 .
15 . Roy Reed, "The Deacons, Too, Ride By Night", New York Times Magazine .
August 15, 1965, 10; Porter, "Interview with Deacon" ; "Jonesboro `Deacons'
Offer Example for Rights Forces", The Militant. Vol . 29, No. 9, (March 1, 1965),
1 ; "Deacons for Defense and Justice Articles of Incorporation", Box 1, Folder 3,
Gwendolyn Hall Papers, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University.
16 . "From: Frederick Brooks To: Oretha Castle-North Louisiana Director of
CORE, Jackson Parish, Jonesboro, Louisiana", Gwendolyn Hall Papers, Box 3,
Folder 14, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University.
17 . "Jonesboro Deacons" .