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Primary Sources Interviews (by Author) BIBLIOGRAPHY Sam Bailey, July 14,1994, Jackson, MS . Unita Blackwell, June 18,1994, Jackson, MS . Lillian Brown, July 29,1994, Fayette, MS . Claude Bryant, July 18,1994, McComb, MS . C.O . Chinn, July 19,1994, Canton, MS . Minnie Chinn, July 17,1994, Canton, MS . Charles Cobb, August 19,1994, Washington, DC . Ed Cole, July 24,1994, Jackson, MS . Milton Cooper, July 23,1994, Jackson, MS . MacArthur Cotton, July 23, 1994, Jackson, MS . Lome Cress, June 18, 1994, Jackson, MS. Ellie Jewel Dahmer, July 27,1994, Kelly's Settlement, MS . Michael Flug, June 24, 1994, Jackson, MS. James Garrett, June, 1994, Jackson, MS. Samuel Harden, October 30,1994, Woodville, MS. Martha Honey, August 26,1994, Silver Springs, MD . Richard Koritz, June 19, 1995, Greensboro, North Carolina .
Herman Leach, July 30,1994, Yazoo City, MS . Rudy Lombard, June 25, 1994, Jackson, MS . Joe Martin, July 18,1994, McComb, MS. Robert Moses, June 26,1994, Jackson, MS. James Nix, September 20,1994, Laurel, MS . J.F. Nobles, July 20,1994, McComb, MS . Matthew Nobles, July 18,1994, McComb, MS . Annie Reeves, July 18,1994, McComb, MS . William Reeves, July 18,1994, McComb, MS . Jodie and Virgie Saffold, July 21, 1994, Old Pilgrims Rest, MS. James Stokes, August 1, 1994, Natchez, MS. Askia M. Toure, September 3,1995, Atlanta, GA. Kwame Ture, February 9,1994, Atlanta, GA . George Walker, September 29, 1994, Port Gibson, MS . Hollis Watkins, July 13,1994, Jackson, MS. Eddie Williams, July, 1994, McComb, MS . Charles Young, October 3,1994, Meridian, MS . James Young, July 28,1994, Natchez, MS . i '~L II ,~ I I . i ILI 248
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Eye for an Eye: The Role ofArmed Re
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This is an authorized facsimile, ma
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ABSTRACT Although, the Civil Rights
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Light and Power on their spirits Mo
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Eye for an Eye: The Role ofArmed Re
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Ch
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armed resistance in Black struggle
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Review of the Literature The Litera
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from advocates of armed self-defens
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the Movement. Each of these authors
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whom were committed to and practice
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and enforced against Black humanity
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transcript" of insurgency that has
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Chapter One: Historic Armed Black R
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to Kongolese armies. The use of arm
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people who were antagonistic to the
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nation, and to promise Africans fre
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coons to chattel status. Rather tha
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South legal . The Seminoles prepare
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more than slaves or mercenaries . A
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maroons, calling themselves the "Ki
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Adams county, Mississippi, in 1861
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The same year abolitionist and fugi
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separate Black army with its own "c
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soldiers defended their sisters and
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Southern whites were not willing to
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die where they stood before they wo
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teers throughout Hinds county. Real
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supremacy was not secure without th
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hours . While in each case there we
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of Alabama, to be armed at their me
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initiated gunfire after hearing rum
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apists . In February of 1948, Mrs.
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U .S . Army, was known as a sharpsh
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11 . Kenneth Wiggins Porter, The Ne
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31 . Edwin S. Redkey, AGrand Army o
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North Carolina Press, 19903, 44-45
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in the Age of Jim C,Eow, states tha
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S 1,614 for whites . Close to two-t
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ers his father would not allow him
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ist mob continued their intimidatio
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unit designed after the Mau Mau of
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the 1954 U .S . Supreme Court decis
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he refused to persuade the thirty r
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Meredith to "Ole Miss." Because of
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eturned home around midnight . Myrl
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11 . C.O . Chinn, interview by the
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crime . He was abducted by a mob of
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Chapter Three: The Non-Violent Move
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as the popular leader of this new o
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ments for protest based on moral an
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ticed some form of self-defense cov
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and NAACP organizer. Moore had assi
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On Moore's recommendation, Moses fi
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house, under pillows, under chairs
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lacks to challenge Amite's white po
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including Medgar Evers and Roy Wilk
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practice of self-defense . To warn
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Mississippi officials, charging the
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Anyone participating in the march h
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and harassed, local police did not
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Blacks alike were amazed that the g
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ase for SNCCICOFO and the Mississip
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with its own identity in the state
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military soured after Chinn openly
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Besides this group of protective gu
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for younger activists to challenge
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9, 1984, 1-B- 10B ; Chuck McDew int
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47 . Ibid, 178-179 ; Dennis, interv
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demonstrate that disenfranchised Mi
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franchised Black voters, the organi
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themselves and advising SNCC activi
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massacre as implied by Hall . Other
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to be a force in the Southern movem
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CORE also was engaged in debate con
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Schwerner, and one Freedom Summer v
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Goodman . Another element of this c
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Black history, Movement politics, a
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Harmony school and bused Harmony's
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economic arena was also displayed i
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on, in Brown's words, the "organiza
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There was a fine line . There was a
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(formerly known as Stokley Carmicha
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Union Baptist Church, led by its pa
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terrorist violence was initiated by
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Reeves family had a history of bein
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and Movement activists of McComb .
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friend by pretending he was only pa
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and cohesiveness of each community.
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lenge the credentials of the segreg
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5 . Hollis Watkins, interviewed in
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28 . Dovie Hudson, interviewed in B
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56 . Bob Moses, interview by the au
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turn followed a different posture t
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cials were uneasy about Charles bec
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Cooper stated " We had 30.06. We ha
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Charles Evers's stated: He encourag
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the boycott. Arange of coercive tac
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thereby silenced and neutralized by
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crushed when a police car led a Kla
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Robert Williams . Thomas had read a
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of the Deacons in Bogulusa. The lea
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McKeithen also called for negotiati
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Page 217 and 218: situation that day: These pecker wo
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Page 253 and 254: the white power structure but also
Page 255 and 256: Significance of "Eye forAn Eye" It
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Page 261 and 262: Correspondence Letter from Sundiata
Page 263 and 264: Carson, Clayborne, et al. The Eyes
Page 265 and 266: Jordan, Winthrop, Tumult and Silenc
Page 267 and 268: Payne, Charles, 1've Got the Light
Page 269 and 270: DissertationslTheses Barksdale, Mar
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