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Title: The Deacons for Defense
Author: Lance Hill
Narrator: Bill Andrew Quinn
Format: mp3
Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
Release date: 12-29-20
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 19 ratings
Genres: Civil Rights & Liberties
Publisher's Summary:
In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization - the Deacons for Defense and Justice - to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence. With their largest and most famous chapter at the center of a bloody campaign in the Ku Klux Klan stronghold of Bogalusa, Louisiana, the Deacons became a popular symbol of the growing frustration with Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent strategy.
