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We will shoot back armed resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement /

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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Основен автор: Umoja, Akinyele Omowale.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : New York University Press, 2013.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=548999
Подобни документи: Print version:: We will shoot back.
Съдържание:
  • 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.