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
Table of Contents:
  • Terror and resistance: foundations of the civil rights insurgency
  • "I'm here, not backing up": emergence of grassroots militancy and armed self-defense in the 1950s
  • "Can't give up my stuff": nonviolent organizations and armed resistance
  • "Local people carry the day": freedom summer and challenges to nonviolence in Mississippi
  • "Ready to die and defend": Natchez and the advocacy and emergence of armed resistance in Mississippi
  • "We didn't turn no jaws": black power, boycotts, and the growing debate on armed resistance
  • "Black revolution has come": armed insurgency, black power, and revolutionary nationalism in the Mississippi freedom struggle
  • "No longer afraid": the United League, activist litigation, armed self-defense, and insurgent resilience in northern Mississippi.

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