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Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision

Title
Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision / Barbara Ransby.
Author
Ransby, Barbara.
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

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Description
xvii, 470 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Gender & American culture
Subject
  • Baker, Ella, 1903-1986
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People > Biography
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party > Biography
  • 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
  • Southern States > Race relations
  • United States > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Call Number
Sc E 03-868
ISBN
0807827789 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2002153275
OCLC
51003919
Author
Ransby, Barbara.
Title
Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision / Barbara Ransby.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
Series
Gender & American culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-450) and index.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 03-868
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