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17 de jun. de 2022 · The Deacons for Defense provided protection for people participating in protest marches in Mississippi in 1966, including the March Against Fear. Many of the records at the National Archives involving the Deacons for Defense are from the FBI Case Files on Civil Unrest.
The Bureau ultimately produced more than 1,500 pages of comprehensive and relatively accurate records on the Deacons and their activities, largely through numerous informants close to or who had infiltrated the organization.
1 de mar. de 2005 · Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. By Lance Hill. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii, 363 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2847-5.) | Journal of American History | Oxford Academic.
19 de nov. de 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 veterans of ...
The Deacons for Defense and Justice*. By CHRISTOPHER B. STRAIN*. On a sultry July evening in 1965, a cavalcade of cars driven by members of the Ku Klux Klan barreled into a predominately black neighborhood of Bogalusa, Louisiana, as they had done on countless nights before. The twenty-five car motorcade sometimes sped, sometimes cruised ...
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The Deacons for Defense and Justice had faced death and never flinched. ‘‘From that day forward,’’ said Burris, ‘‘we didn’t have too many more problems.’’≥ In 1964 a clandestine armed self-defense organization formed in the black community in Jonesboro, Louisiana, with the goal of protecting civil rights
8 de oct. de 2012 · A pamphlet about the Deacons for Defense, an armed self-defense African-American civil rights organization in the U.S. Southern states during the 1960s.
