PA Bill Number: HR134
Title: Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and issue a report on home and community-based services provided to individuals ...
Description: Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and issue a report on home and community-based services provided to individuals ...
Last Action: Reported as amended
Last Action Date: Apr 28, 2026
Novel chronicles 'Deacons' who came before Panthers :: 08/16/2011
The Rev. Dr. L. LaSimba Gray, pastor of New Sardis Baptist Church, has just published a book entitled "The Deacons For Defense and Justice," which tells the story of brave African-American men in Bogalusa, La., who armed themselves to protect their community from extremists such as The Ku Klux Klan.
Gray spent 20-plus years researching and interviewing the men who were involved in the Deacons For Defense organization.
"They are the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement," Gray said. The history of the Deacons includes defended Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in southern towns where his life was threatened. It is a true story of African-American men fortified by the Second Amendment right to bare arms choosing to defy the brutality of racist law enforcement officers and civilians.
