Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick
Reverend Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick (1933-1986) was an African-American musician and civil rights activist.[1]
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 The Ballad of a Watergate Security Guard, 2:32, sung by the Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, WNYC[2] |
He was born Haynesville Louisiana and attended Grambling College in Grambling.[1] He was director of folk culture for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
In November 1964 Kirkpatrick and Earnest "Chilly Willy" Thomas founed the Deacons for Defense and Justice in Jonesboro in Jackson Parish. Their aim was to protect civil rights workers, their communities and their families against the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1969 Kirkpatrick was featured on Alessandro Portelli's L'America Della Contestazione (I Dischi del Sole) singing Bourgeois School a rewrite of Lead Belly's Bourgeois Blues.
References
- ^ a b "Rev. F.D. Kirkpatrick; Associate of Dr. King". New York Times. 1986. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "The Ballad of a Watergate Security Guard". WNYC. Retrieved October 31, 2016.