 whose weapons were the mass media and the moral consciousness of the nation, whose troops were mixed black and white, northerners and southerners, and whose vanguard was composed of ministers, priests, and nuns from every corner of the United States. A nonviolent army, yes, but lest the hundred-year-old origins of this battle be missed, an army ultimately flanked by bayonets and backed up by the military might of the United States.