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After encountering hostile and violent counterdemonstrators during the Eagles Club protests, the NAACP Youth Council realized that police protection was insufficient. In October of 1966, the Youth Council unveiled its exclusively-male security unit known as the Commandos. The Commandos went …/marchonmilwaukee/wp-content/uploads/sites/349/2015/12/commandos-naacp_whs_85369-201x300.jpg