The Deacons for Defense by Lance Hill

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/223109 to listen full audiobooks. 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.