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We Will Shoot Back : Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement / Akinyele Omowale Umoja.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780814725474
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.1196/0730762 23
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  • E185.93.M6 U46 2013eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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