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Robert Hicks founder of Deacons for Defense and fought the Ku Klux Klan in LA dies at 81

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Robert Hicks, Leader in Armed Rights Group, Dies at 81 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: April 24, 2010 Someone had called to say the Ku Klux Klan was coming to bomb Robert Hicks?s house. The police said there was nothing they could do. It was the night of Feb. 1, 1965, in Bogalusa, La. The Klan was furious that Mr. Hicks, a black paper mill worker, was putting up two white civil rights workers in his home. It was just six months after three young civil rights workers had been murdered in Philadelphia, Miss. Mr. Hicks and his wife, Valeria, made some phone calls. They found neighbors to take in their children, and they reached out to friends for protection. Soon, armed black men materialized. Nothing happened. Less than three weeks later, the leaders of a secretive, paramilitary organization of blacks called the Deacons for Defense and Justice visited Bogalusa...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).