The 'Deacons for Defense and Justice,' an armed African American self-defense group charged with protecting local black communities and civil rights volunteers, was organized in July 1964 in Jonesboro, Louisiana. After witnessing a Ku Klux Klan parade accompanied by police escort through Jonesboro’s black neighborhoods, a group of black residents got together to form the […]
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