Black Guerrilla Warfare in the Deep South: The Deacons for Defense

Posted by the ghetto intellectual 2/8/2010


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African Americans have been waging a fierce guerrilla war against white supremacy for decades. One of my favorite examples is the Deacons for Defense and Justice in Louisiana.

Deacons for Defense and Justice, a black organization established to protect civil rights workers against the Ku Klux Klan. The Deacons for Defense and Justice, a group of African American men who were mostly veterans of World War II and the Korean War, organized in Jonesboro, Louisiana, on July 10, 1964.

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2/9/2010 Update #1  Read article on Deacons for Defense @ Ebony magazine

tags: black freedom movement, civil rights, radical, southern United States