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Deacons for Defense and Justice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed African-American self-defense group founded in November 1964, during the civil rights era in the United States, in the mill town of Jonesboro, Louisiana . On February 21, 1965—the day of Malcolm X 's assassination—the first affiliated chapter was founded in Bogalusa, Louisiana , followed by a total of 20 other chapters in this state, Mississippi and Alabama. It was intended to protect civil rights activists and their families. They were threatened both by white vigilantes and discriminatory treatment by police under Jim Crow laws. The Bogalusa chapter gained national attention during the summer of 1965 in its violent struggles with the Ku Klux Klan . By 1968, the Deacons' activities were declining, following passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 , the entry of blacks into politics in the South, and the rise of the Black Power movement. ...

National Headquarters of the BBP, located in Los Angles California

Wikipedia Kwame Ture ( /ˈkwɑːmeɪ ˈtʊəreɪ/ ; born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael , June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was a Trinidadian-American prominent socialist organizer in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement . Born in Trinidad , he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while attending Howard University . He eventually developed the Black Power movement , first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later serving as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and lastly as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).  Carmichael was one of the original SNCC freedom riders of 1961 under Diane Nash 's leadership. He became a major voting rights activist in Mississippi and Alabama after being mentored by Ella Baker and Bob Moses . Like most young people in SNCC, he became disillusione...