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AB  - 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.
AU  - Umoja, Akinyele Omowale, 
CN  - E185.93.M6 U46 2013
DO  - 10.18574/nyu/9780814725474.001.0001
DO  - doi
ID  - 1479609
JF  - New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
KW  - African Americans
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Self-defense
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
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.
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814725474
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 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.
SN  - 9780814725474
T1  - We Will Shoot Back :Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement /
TI  - We Will Shoot Back :Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814725474
ER  -