We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
Akinyele Omowale Umoja
Jan 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by David Sadzin
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A bold and exciting historical narrative of the armed resistance of Black soldiers of the Mississippi Freedom Movement In 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.
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Charles Johnson
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November 16, 2021
an excellent book! stories that I'd heard about when I was a child from my grandmother back in the early 60's. these are stories that should be taught in school. especially with the rise currently of white nationalism and fascism. this book will inspire the most passive person that it's foolish not to defend yourself! times have changed in America and not for the better for poor people and people of color.
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Akinyele Omowale Umoja is a professor and chair of the department of African-American studies at Georgia State University, where he teaches courses on the history of the civil rights and Black Power movements and other social movements. He is the author of We Will Shoot Back.
When he was seven, David Sadzin's first grade teacher gave him a paragraph to read out loud. She interrupted him halfway to proclaim him "The Ringmaster" in his class's musical extravaganza about the circus. He's been using his voice to get out of trouble ever since.
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