Deacons for Defense (film)

Schedule

Wed Feb 18 2026 at 01:30 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-06:00

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Rock Island Public Library (Downtown Library) | Rock Island, IL

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Deacons for Defense is a film based on true events for Black History Month. Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed African-American self-defense group. The group's Bogalusa chapter gained national attention in summer 1965 after violent struggles with the Ku Klux Klan.
This made for TV movie originally aired in 2003, and was directed by Bill Duke, with Forest Whitaker in a lead role. If you missed it then, watch it now!
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Rock Island Public Library (Downtown Library), 401 19th St,Rock Island, Illinois, United States

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