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

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My father was born in 1915 to a sharecropping family in the Bolivar County village of Alligator in the Mississippi Delta. Dad told me stories about Mississippi when I was growing up in Compton, California. These stories were full of examples of White terrorism and intimidation. One story I heard inv...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Umoja, Akinyele Omowale
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York [N.Y.] : New York University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mississippi Freedom Project.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Suffrage > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Self-defense > Political aspects > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:My father was born in 1915 to a sharecropping family in the Bolivar County village of Alligator in the Mississippi Delta. Dad told me stories about Mississippi when I was growing up in Compton, California. These stories were full of examples of White terrorism and intimidation. One story I heard invoked mixed feelings of fear and pride. My father remembered seeing a Black man hanging from a Delta water tower, apparently after being lynched by White supremacists. Angered by this visible assault on Black humanity, my grandfather grabbed a rifle and intended to shoot the first White man he saw. My father, his siblings, and his stepmother tackled my grandfather and disarmed him. After hearing this story, I was proud that my grandfather wanted to fight back against the terrorists who lynched one of our people. On the other hand, I understood the fear in the hearts and minds of my father, uncles, and grandmother as they visualized the retaliation that would have been inflicted on the family if my grandfather had carried out his plans.
Item Description:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages): ill., digital file.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780814725474
Access:Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.

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