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Learn about the armed African-American self-defense group that protected civil rights activists and their families in the South during the 1960s. Find out how they were founded, what they faced, and what legacy they left.
Deacons for Defense is a 2003 American television drama film directed by Bill Duke. The television film stars Forest Whitaker, Christopher Britton, Ossie Davis, Jonathan Silverman, Adam Weiner, and Marcus Johnson.
Nov 19, 2007 · On July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) against Ku Klux Klan violence. Most of the “Deacons” were ...
Jun 17, 2022 · Learn about the black veterans who formed the Deacons for Defense and Justice in 1964 to protect civil rights activists from the Ku Klux Klan. Find records from the FBI Case Files on Civil Unrest at the National Archives.
The Deacons for Defense and Justice traced its history to July 1964 in nearby Jonesboro, Louisiana, when Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Kirkpatrick started a defense group to...
Oct 8, 2012 · A pamphlet about the Deacons for Defense, a black self-defense organization that confronted the Klan and white violence in the 1960s U.S. South. Learn about their history, tactics, and legacy in this PDF document.
Mar 1, 2005 · Founded during the summer of 1964 in the pine hills of northern Louisiana by working-class African Americans, the Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed self-defense organization whose very existence called into question the continued viability of nonviolent strategies and middle-class leadership within the civil rights movement.
