[Video] Modibo Kadalie on the "bat patrols": Community self-defense and the 1981 Atlanta child murders

Scholar/actvist Modibo Kadalie discusses helping to organize community self-defense in the Techwood Homes housing projects during the 1981 Atlanta Child Murders.

Interviewed in Decatur, Georgia, 6 October 2013.

Dr. Kadalie's writings are available from On Our Own Authority! Publishing.
www.oooabooks.org

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