The Use of Guns in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States

Deacons for Defense and Justice The Use of Guns in the Civil Rights Movement By Ben Garrett The thought of guns during America’s Civil Rights movement generally conjures up images of acts of violence perpetrated against African-Americans and civil rights workers in the South. But guns also played a significant role in dissuading violence, primarily more »

Reconciling the role of armed resistance in the midst of MLKs "nonviolent" movement

Deacons for Defense and Justice Wikipedia The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed self-defense African-American civil rights organization in the U.S. Southern states during the 1960s. Historically, the organization practiced self-defense methods in the face of racist oppression that was carried out under the Jim Crow Laws by local/state government officials and racist more »