• 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...
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  • on the activities of the Deacons for Defense and Justice in 1965 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. The African-American self-defense organization was founded in...
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  • Bob Hicks (activist) (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    in founding the Bogalusa chapter of The Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed African-American self-defense group, Hicks led daily protests on the...
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    founded the Deacons for Defense and Justice in Jonesboro. It was an armed self-defense group, largely made up of men who were World War II and Korean War...
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    Robert "Bob" Hicks House (category Buildings and structures completed in the 1950s)
    Hicks was a co-founder and leader of the local chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, founded in February 1965 and affiliated with the original...
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    of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) took part, with Deacons for Defense and Justice from Louisiana providing armed...
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  • Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    activist, and minister from Haynesville, Louisiana. In late 1964 he was a co-founder of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed black self-defense group...
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    Bogalusa, Louisiana (category Riots and civil disorder in Louisiana)
    (all-black) Bogalusa Civic and Voters' League. On February 21, 1965, with the help of three activists from the Deacons for Defense and Justice based in Jonesboro...
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  • segregation and discrimination in the United States. Some of CORE's main leadership had strong disagreements with the Deacons for Defense and Justice over the...
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  • McElveen, the prime suspect in the case, died in 2003. The Deacons for Defense and Justice, an African-American group with a chapter organized in 1965...
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  • Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton...
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    the Deacons for Defense and Justice, who used arms to repel white supremacist violence and police repression. CORE's collaboration with the Deacons was...
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    Ruby Bridges (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    Ceremony at Corcoran Gallery of Art". United States Department of Justice (justice.gov). Retrieved September 26, 2022. "President Clinton Awards the Presidential...
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    the Brown vs Board of Education case. US Department of Justice briefs gave only one reason for involvement in cases like this; that segregation harmed...
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  • featuring Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, founder of the Deacons for Defense and Justice Avanti Popolo: Revolutionary Songs of the Italian Working Class...
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  • Deacons for Defense and Justice, an African-American self-defense group DDJ (Deputy District Judge) a judicial title in the judiciary of England and Wales...
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  • reported to be written for children in the 1920s by Harry Dixon Loes, but he never claimed credit for the original version of the song, and researchers at the...
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    and had a Gullah version early in its history even if it did not originate in that dialect. The two oldest versions whose year of origin is known for...
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    Festival Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor...
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    with the justice of the civil-rights cause. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which viewed King and his allies for racial justice as subversive...
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    and the SCLC, as well as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), the Deacons for Defense and Justice...
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  • an African-American woman who works as a maid/nanny for Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek). Odessa and her family confront typical issues faced by African...
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  • Although local newspapers and law enforcement officials initially decried the violence against Till and called for justice, they responded to national...
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  • advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry...
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    carried arms, such as Colonel Stone Johnson, Robert Hayling, and the Deacons for Defense and Justice. King was criticized by other black leaders in the civil...
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    Sermon on the Mount (category New Testament words and phrases)
    Christian ethics, and for centuries the sermon has acted as a fundamental recipe for the conduct of the followers of Jesus. Various religious and moral thinkers...
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  • inaugural address "That day, my heart sank. I knew his defense of 'states' rights' was really a defense of the status quo in Alabama." Civil rights demonstrators...
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  • December 3, 2020. Brandon, Katz (April 1, 2021). "Was 'Zack Snyder's Justice League' a Hit for HBO Max? Here's What the Data Says". Observer. Retrieved July...
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    favor for a friend in the mafia, Frank Liberto, a produce merchant who died before 1993.[citation needed] According to the Department of Justice, Jowers...
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    3917/rfea.146.0039. Retrieved October 24, 2016 – via Cairn.info. Jentri Anders, Beyond Counterculture, Washington State University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-87422-060-5...
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