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Umoja is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of
African-American Studies at Georgia State University. He is the author
of We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom
Movement (forthcoming by New York University Press, April 2013)
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
"When Other Folks Give Up Theirs"" Black Freedom and the Gun Control Debate Contrary to Congressman John Lewis' revision of history, "the notion that the Civil Rights movement was exclusively nonviolent is a popular mythology." In fact, "Some members of Lewis's Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee picked up weapons and worked with community people to defend their lives against white terrorists."
Thursday, February 7, 2013"When Other Folks Give Up Theirs"" Black Freedom and the Gun Control Debate Contrary to Congressman John Lewis' revision of history, "the notion that the Civil Rights movement was exclusively nonviolent is a popular mythology." In fact, "Some members of Lewis's Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee picked up weapons and worked with community people to defend their lives against white terrorists."
