

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Deacons for Defense (film) 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 01:30 pm – Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 03:30 pm
- **Event Description**: 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!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rock-island/deacons-for-defense-film/200029530026007
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, black-history-month
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029530026007?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=rock+island-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Rock Island
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Rock Island Public Library (Downtown Library)
- **lat**: 41.50852
- **long**: -90.57278
- **full address**: Rock Island Public Library (Downtown Library), 401 19th St,Rock Island,IL,United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Rock Island Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/rock-island-public-library/1817391)

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: banner
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/afcd28804c68349b53c931a8a6d5b0e9a1a9e45cc293763324dccc556aa958e0-rimg-w1200-h659-dc49c0da-gmir?v=1771108030
- **Alt text**: thumbnail
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/1e3e2fc5bc2b79262aaa97c3484da977c48f4c454ea48cf94bc3521d96810966-rimg-w300-h300-dc4ac1da-gmir?v=1771108031

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 01:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Rock Island Public Library (Downtown Library), 401 19th St,Rock Island,IL,United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Rock Island Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** entertainment, black-history-month
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Deacons for Defense (film)  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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