Eye for an Eye: The Role of Armed Resistance ... - Freedom Archives

certainly different from the stereotype of the completely terrorized and powerless
Black communities in the days of segregation . Hopefully, this study will aid in
constructing the full spectrum of responses to oppression and white supremacy in
the United States and in the American South and give voice to Movement partici-
pants underrepresented in Movement literature and media accounts of Movement
history.
Finally I hope that this project leads to the initiation of other works by
other researchers in other southern states to identify commonalities and differ-
ences with the Mississippi freedom movement . Several of the communities and
individuals mentioned in this work could be the focus of future scholarship .
Hopefully, Eye for An Eye will spark new discussions, new ideas, and new
focuses that will raise our understanding and create a more inclusive historiogra-
phy . This is the challenge of any generation of scholars. Let us leave the next
generation with new challenges and broader and more sophisticated understand-
ing of the past .
1 . Amilcar Cabral, nily and Struggle : SR=cbes and Writings gfAmilcar Cabral
(New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979, 153 .
2 . Gloria Richardson Dandridge, interviewed by John Britton, 1967, New York,
Civil Rights Documentation Project, Howard University ; Cleveland Sellers, with
Robert Terrell, The River of No eturn . (Oxford, Mississippi : University of
Mississippi, 1990), 68 .
3 . V.P. Franklin, Black Self-determination . (Brooklyn, New York, Lawrence Hill),
8,76-77 .