Black Buffers
The Black Buffers were a paramilitary, right-wing security organization made up of black ex-convicts that patrolled the streets of Washington, DC in 1968 after the riots following the murder of Martin Luther King . Ideologically, the Black Buffers linked evangelical beliefs with black nationalism and entrepreneurship. The Black Buffers were organized and controlled by the evangelical organization The Family , which they built up as a right-wing response to the Black Panthers . Involved in the establishment of the Black Buffers were among others the future chaplain of the US Senate , Richard C. Halverson , a group of evangelical white businessmen, the black preacher William Porter and the sociology professor John Staggers.
The organization has also received financial support from the DC Mayor's Office and the Office of Economic Opportunity .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julia Rabig: “Black Buffers” - Evangelical Entrepreneurship Meets Black Power on the Streets of Washington, DC Penn Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania, 2004, abstract ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Jeff Sharlet: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. HarperCollins, New York 2008, pp. 238-239, ISBN 978-0-06-055979-3 .