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We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

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Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black Studies
 
Winner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature

In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance within the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale Umoja argues that armed resistance was once crucial to the Southern freedom struggle and the dismantling of segregation and Black disenfranchisement. Intimidation and fear were central to the system of oppression in the various Deep South. To triumph over the system of segregation, Black folks had To triumph over fear to offer a significant challenge to White domination. Because the civil rights movement developed, armed self-defense and resistance changed into a significant means in 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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