On this day in 1964, a group of Black men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, founded The Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect civil rights activists.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today July 10, 2023 JULY 10, 1964 A group of Black men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick, founded The Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect civil rights activists. The deacons, most of them veterans of the Korean War, World War II or both, began providing protection after the Congress of Racial Equality’s freedom house became a target of the Ku Klux Klan.
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