Description |
xvii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Series |
Gender & American culture |
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Gender & American culture.
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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.
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African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -- Biography.
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Southern States -- Race relations.
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United States -- Race relations.
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ISBN |
0807827789 alkaline paper |
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9780807827789 alkaline paper |
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9780807856161 paperback |
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0807856169 paperback |
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