We Will Shoot Back by Akinyele Omowale Umoja
We Will Shoot Back by Akinyele Omowale Umoja
Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black Studies
Winner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature
The book brings to light a powerful aspect of the Black Freedom Struggle that is often overlooked by the average American citizen. Nonviolence in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement stagnated, paving the way for a far more militant and aggressive flavor of protest towards Jim Crow. Some parts of Umoja's book can seem redundant and generally hard to read as a result, but this should not dissuade anyone from giving it a chance.
The book brings to light a powerful aspect of the Black Freedom Struggle that is often overlooked by the average American citizen. Nonviolence in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement stagnated, paving the way for a far more militant and aggressive flavor of protest towards Jim Crow. Some parts of Umoja's book can seem redundant and generally hard to read as a result, but this should not dissuade anyone from giving it a chance.