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050		4	_aE185.93.M6 _bU46 2013
082	0	4	_a323.1196/0730762 _223
100	1		_aUmoja, Akinyele Omowale.
245	1	0	_aWe will shoot back _h[electronic resource] : _barmed resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement / _cAkinyele Omowale Umoja.
260			_aNew York [N.Y.] : _bNew York University Press, _c[2013] _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject Muse, _g2013) _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (1 electronic text (xii, 339 p.) :) _bill., digital file.
500			_aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aTerror 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.
520	3		_aMy 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 invoked mixed feelings of fear and pride. My father remembered seeing a Black man hanging from a Delta water tower, apparently after being lynched by White supremacists. Angered by this visible assault on Black humanity, my grandfather grabbed a rifle and intended to shoot the first White man he saw. My father, his siblings, and his stepmother tackled my grandfather and disarmed him. After hearing this story, I was proud that my grandfather wanted to fight back against the terrorists who lynched one of our people. On the other hand, I understood the fear in the hearts and minds of my father, uncles, and grandmother as they visualized the retaliation that would have been inflicted on the family if my grandfather had carried out his plans.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aCivil rights movements _zMississippi _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aCivil rights workers _zMississippi _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xSuffrage _zMississippi _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xCivil rights _zMississippi _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aSelf-defense _xPolitical aspects _zMississippi _xHistory _y20th century.
610	2	0	_aMississippi Freedom Project.
651		0	_aMississippi _xRace relations _xHistory _y20th century.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z0814725244 _z9780814725245 _w(DLC) 2012046909
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814725474/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c32489 _d32489