In this teaching enrichment video, Akinyele Omowale Umojo explains the way that Black Americans engaged in armed resistance during the civil rights movement and how today’s stand your ground laws are impacted by this history. For more teaching tools visit: https://ift.tt/2Pbdzvr
Historian Akinyele Omowale Umoja is the author of We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement (NYU Press, 2013). Professor Umoja teaches in the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University.
To watch Dr. Mark Anthony Neal’s full interview of Dr. Umoja visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooCLsrba1Ow
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