@article{1479609,
      recid = {1479609},
      author = {Umoja, Akinyele Omowale, },
      title = {We Will Shoot Back : Armed Resistance in the Mississippi  Freedom Movement /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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 LiteratureIn 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479609},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814725474.001.0001},
}