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

http://insurgentnotes.com/2014/03/book-review-akinyele-o-umoja-we-will-shoot-back-armed-resistance-in-the-mississippi-freedom-movement-2013/
Date Written:  2014-03-11
Publisher:  Insurgent Notes
Year Published:  2014
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX16141

The black freedom movement is framed in popular memory as distinguished by nonviolent civil disobedience. Yet in multiple southern towns, black people used armed self-defense to protect their communities and lives.

Subject Headings

• Civil Rights Movement (U.S.)
• Guns
• Self-Defence