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What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger!
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Deacons for Defense, Jonesboro, Louisiana
Kicked ass and took names!
The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed African American self-defense organization formed in 1964 in Jonesboro, Louisiana, to protect civil rights activists and local Black communities from Ku Klux Klan violence. Founded by veterans, they provided armed protection and challenged the mainstream civil rights movement's nonviolent strategy, growing to over 20 chapters.
Modes of Fighting Back
Armed Self-Defense: Many Black communities relied on veterans, such as Harry Haywood, who argued that their military training should be used to protect their homes rather than fight foreign wars.
The Black Press: Newspapers like the Chicago Defender documented white violence and encouraged self-defense, countering narratives that blamed Black residents for the "riots".
Legal & Political Resistance: The NAACP, founded in 1909 in response to racial violence, fought against lynching and for voting rights, including legal challenges against "grandfather clauses".
Economic Independence: Movements to build black-owned businesses and neighborhoods, such as in Durham, North Carolina, or Greenwood, Oklahoma, served as a direct challenge to the idea of white economic superiority.
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Throughout these periods, Black residents often faced, in addition to white mobs, efforts by police and state militias to disarm them, often leading to lynchings or mass arrests of the victims of the violence.
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Key Instances of BLACK Resistance
Slave Rebellions (18th–19th Century): Resistance included acts like the Stono Rebellion (1712) and Nat Turner's rebellion (1831), which were direct, violent responses to the brutality of slavery.
Post-Civil War/Reconstruction (1865–1877): Black men and women fought back against early Ku Klux Klan violence to protect their newly won voting rights and political positions.
The Red Summer of 1919: Following World War I, Black veterans and civilians armed themselves against white mobs attacking Black communities across the U.S.
Washington, D.C. (July 1919): Black residents, including WWI veterans, organized armed resistance to defend their neighborhoods against mobs of white sailors and soldiers.
Chicago (July 1919): After a white mob murdered a black teenager, black citizens formed self-defense units and fought back for several days.
Knoxville, Tennessee (Aug 1919): Armed Black men successfully repelled hundreds of white rioters attempting to destroy the black community.
Elaine, Arkansas (Sept 1919): Black sharecroppers organized a union for better pay and, when attacked by white planters, fired back in self-defense.
1921 Tulsa Massacre: Black residents of the Greenwood District (Black Wall Street) armed themselves to fight back against a white mob and city-sanctioned destruction.
Civil Rights Era (1950s–1960s): Groups like the Deacons for Defense and Justice provided armed protection for civil rights workers in the South, while the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (founded 1966) challenged police brutality in urban areas.
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Black Americans have a long history of fighting back against white supremacy through armed self-defense, legal challenges, and organized resistance. Notable instances range from slave rebellions to organized resistance during the "Red Summer" of 1919 and the Black Power movement of the 1960s.
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