https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/black-power/deacons
The Deacons for Defense and Justice | National Archives
Jun 17, 2022 - The Deacons for Defense and Justice was founded in 1964 in Jonesboro, Louisiana to protect civil rights activists from the Ku Klux Klan. The organization was...
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https://libcom.org/article/deacons-defense-armed-resistance-and-civil-rights-movement
The Deacons for Defense: armed resistance and the Civil Rights Movement | libcom.org
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.
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