We Will Shoot Back Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

Name: We Will Shoot Back Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
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ISBN: 9781479886036

ISBN-10: 1479886033

ISBN-13: 9781479886036

Edition: 2014

Authors: Akinyele Omowale Umoja

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Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black StudiesIn We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale Umoja argues that armed resistance was critical to the Southern freedom struggle and the dismantling of segregation and Black disenfranchisement. Intimidation and fear were central to the system of oppression in most of the Deep South. To overcome the system of segregation, Black people had to overcome fear to present a significant challenge to White domination. As the civil rights movement developed, armed self-defense and resistance became a significant means by which the descendants of…

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 8/22/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 351
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Akinyele Omowaleï¿½Umoja is an educator and scholar-activist. He is an associate professor and chair of the department of African-American studies at Georgia State University, where he teaches courses on the history of the civil rights and Black Power movements and other social movements. He has been a community activist for over 40 years.