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We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
, renowned scholar-activist
Akinyele Umoja persuasively argues that armed resistance was critical to the efficacy of the southern freedom struggle and the dismantling of segregation. He challenges long-held beliefs about the role of nonviolence within the civil rights movement and uncovers the hidden narratives of Mississippi’s black armed resistance groups.
Published on February 12, 2013 04:11