Akinyele Omowale Umoja

Akinyele Omowale Umoja is a 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 is the author of We Will Shoot Back: Amed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement. He has been a community activist for over forty years.

Akinyele Omowale Umoja is a 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 is the author of We Will Shoot Back: Amed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement. He has been a community activist for over forty years. See less