| Film Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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Film Review

Deacons for Defense. Directed by Bill Duke. Produced by Robert Rehme. Screenplay by Richard Wesley and Frank Military, based on the book by Michael D'Antonio. A Showtime Original Production. 2003; color; 99 min. Distributed by DEJ Productions.

Deacons for Defense, a feature-length film originally made for cable television, dramatizes civil rights activism in Bogalusa, Louisiana, during 1965. The film showcases a little-known but historically significant group known as the Deacons for Defense and Justice, a band of armed black men who united in Bogalusa (and in other pockets of white terrorism) to combat the Ku Klux Klan. Until recently, most civil rights scholars and historians have overlooked the Deacons, who were seemingly out of step with a social movement characterized by nonviolent direct action. The film boasts an impressive cast, including Forrest Whittaker as the protagonist, Marcus; Ossie Davis as Reverend Gregory; and Joel Silverman as Deane, a white civil rights organizer from the North.

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