[Video, Captioned] James Farmer's Reflections #11

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[Video, Captioned] James Farmer's Reflections #11

title: [Video, Captioned] James Farmer's Reflections #11

creator: WNVT-TV

creator: University of Mary Washington

contributor: Maisano, Francesca

date: 1987

format: MP4

format: 29 min. 02 sec.

type: Moving Image

description: In this lecture, James Farmer discusses his multiple trips to Bogalusa, Louisiana. Since he received multiple death threats, the state of Louisiana offered police protection to him. Farmer discusses how it was difficult for the black defense group, Deacons for Defense in Justice, to trust the police protection because of prior discrimination and violence. One trip to Bogalusa involved a silent Civil Rights march where the local KKK leaders brought weapons to the march. Farmer states that without the police protection and FBI information on the movement of the KKK, he would have been dead.

publisher: University of Mary Washington

subject: Farmer, James, 1920-1999

subject: Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

subject: Louisiana -- Bogalusa

subject: Deacons for Defense and Justice.

subject: Ku Klux Klan (1915- )

subject: Civil rights demonstrations -- United States.

relation: [Transcript] James Farmer's Reflections #11

language: English

identifier: reflections_011_captions

rights: This item is in copyright. It is available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Items may not be reproduced or used for any commercial purposes without prior written consent from the University of Mary Washington.

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