freedom, the sudden movement that erupted in places like greenewood, mississippi in 1962 when sam bloch from cleveland, mississippi came over to begin organizing or when the first bunch of slick people entered in there to begin the registration, part of the organizing tradition that began far earlier than the naacp. the shape it takes very much depends on the circumstances people find themselves living in but the one common thread running through it is the desire for freedom. that is important to understand and what i am trying to portray in this book. they use guns in many instances. obviously weapons reused in slave revolts, weapons were used in the post civil war, the reconstruction period, they had to fend off the ku klux klan, the paleface brotherhood, a white knight and other organizations that were seeking to to dismember these fledgling attempts at creating democracy in the south that followed the civil war. black veterans in world war i and world war ii, very large presence in this book. after world war i and especially after world war ii, veterans led the way in the fight for