We Will Shoot Back : Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement / Akinyele Omowale Umoja.
Umoja, Akinyele Omowale, author.
2013
E185.93.M6 U46 2013
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access

Details

Title We Will Shoot Back : Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement / Akinyele Omowale Umoja.
Author Umoja, Akinyele Omowale, author.
ISBN 9780814725474
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814725474.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814725474.001.0001 doi
Call Number E185.93.M6 U46 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.1196/0730762 323.11960730762
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 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.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics text file PDF
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814725245
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
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

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export