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

Published New York : NYU Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages) Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Terror and Resistance: Foundations of the Civil Rights Insurgency; 2. "I'm Here, Not Backing Up": Emergence of Grassroots Militancy and Armed Self-Defense in the 1950s; 3. "Can't Give Up My Stuff": Nonviolent Organizations and Armed Resistance; 4. "Local People Carry the Day": Freedom Summer and Challenges to Nonviolence in Mississippi; 5. "Ready to Die and Defend": Natchez and the Advocacy and Emergence of Armed Resistance in Mississippi; 6. "We Didn't Turn No Jaws": Black Power, Boycotts, and the Growing Debate on Armed Resistance 7. "Black Revolution Has Come": Armed Insurgency, Black Power, and Revolutionary Nationalism in the Mississippi Freedom Struggle8. "No Longer Afraid": The United League, Activist Litigation, Armed Self-Defense, and Insurgent Resilience in Northern Mississippi; Conclusion: Looking Back So We Can Move Forward; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; About the Author Summary ""Ranging from Reconstruction to the Black Power period, this thoroughly and creatively researched book effectively challenges long-held beliefs about the Black Freedom Struggle. It should make it abundantly clear that the violence/nonviolence dichotomy is too simple to capture the thinking of Black Southerners about the forms of effective resistance.""--Charles M. Payne, University of Chicago The notion that the civil rights movement in the southern United States was a nonviolent movement remains a dominant theme of civil rights memory and representation in popular culture. Yet in dozens o Notes Print version record Subject Mississippi Freedom Project. SUBJECT Mississippi Freedom Project fast Subject Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century Self-defense -- Political aspects -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- Suffrage Civil rights movements Civil rights workers Race relations SUBJECT Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject Mississippi Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780814725474 0814725473

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