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Author Ransby, Barbara.

Title Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision / Barbara Ransby.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
©2003

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  323.092 R172    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  323.092 RANSBY    In Transit
Description xvii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Gender & American culture
Gender & American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [425]-450) and index.
Contents Now, who are your people?: Norfolk, Virginia, and Littleton, North Carolina, 1903-1918 -- A reluctant rebel and an exceptional student: Shaw Academy and Shaw University, 1918-1927 -- Harlem during the 1930s: the making of a black radical activist and intellectual -- Fighting her own wars: the NAACP national office, 1940-1946 -- Cops, schools, and communism: local politics and global ideologies: New York City in the 1950s -- The preacher and the organizer: the politics of leadership in the early civil rights movement -- New battlefields and new allies: Shreveport, Birmingham, and the Southern Conference Education Fund -- Mentoring a new generation of activists: the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960-1961 -- The empowerment of an indigenous southern Black leadership, 1961-1964 -- Mississippi Goddamn: fighting for freedom in the belly of the beast of southern racism -- The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the radical campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s -- A Freirian teacher, a Gramscian intellectual, and a radical humanist: Ella Baker's legacy -- Ella Baker's organizational affiliations, 1927-1986.
Summary A portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century introduces readers to the fiery woman who inspired generations of activists.
Awards Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004
Subject Baker, Ella, 1903-1986.
African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -- Biography.
Southern States -- Race relations.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN 0807827789 alkaline paper
9780807827789 alkaline paper
9780807856161 paperback
0807856169 paperback
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