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

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 pe...