TY  - BOOK
AU  - Umoja,Akinyele Omowale
TI  - We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement 
SN  - 9780814725474
AV  - E185.93.M6 U46 2013eb
U1  - 323.1196/0730762 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Suffrage
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Self-defense
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Black Freedom Struggle
KW  - Black history
KW  - Civil rights movement
KW  - Ku Klux Klan Mississippi Freedom Struggle
KW  - SNCC
KW  - armed resistance
KW  - armed self-defense
KW  - freedom struggle
KW  - nonviolence
KW  - political activism
KW  - segregation
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Terror and Resistance --; 2. “I’m Here, Not Backing Up” --; 3. “Can’t Give Up My Stuff” --; 4. “Local People Carry the Day” --; 5. “Ready to Die and Defend” --; 6. “We Didn’t Turn No Jaws” --; 7. “Black Revolution Has Come” --; 8. “No Longer Afraid” --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black StudiesWinner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureA bold and exciting historical narrative of the armed resistance of Black soldiers of the Mississippi Freedom MovementIn 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 enslaved Africans overturned fear and intimidation and developed different political and social relationships between Black and White Mississippians.This riveting historical narrative reconstructs the armed resistance of Black activists, their challenge of racist terrorism, and their fight for human rights
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814725474.001.0001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814725474
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814725474/original
ER  -