Akinyele Umoja is Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American studies at Georgia State University, where he teaches courses on the history of the civil rights and Black Power movements and other social movements. He has been a community activist for over 40 years. His book We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement is a riveting historical narrative that reconstructs the armed resistance of Black activists, their challenge of racist terrorism, and their fight for human rights.