Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement
Subtitle: a radical democratic vision
By: Barbara Ransby
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Series: Gender & American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: African American women civil rights workers; Race relations; Race relations. People; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; History; African Americans; Biography; Civil rights workers
Other titles: Ella Baker & the Black freedom movement
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-450) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Now, who are your people?: Norfolk, Virginia, and Littleton, North Carolina, 1903-1918; title: A reluctant rebel and an exceptional student: Shaw Academy and Shaw University, 1918-1927; title: Harlem during the 1930s: the making of a black radical activist and intellectual; title: Fighting her own wars: the NAACP national office, 1940-1946; title: Cops, schools, and communism: local politics and global ideologies: New York City in the 1950s; title: The preacher and the organizer: the politics of leadership in the early civil rights movement; title: New battlefields and new allies: Shreveport, Birmingham, and the Southern Conference Education Fund; title: Mentoring a new generation of activists: the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960-1961; title: The empowerment of an indigenous southern Black leadership, 1961-1964; title: Mississippi Goddamn: fighting for freedom in the belly of the beast of southern racism; title: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the radical campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s; title: A Freirian teacher, a Gramscian intellectual, and a radical humanist: Ella Baker's legacy; title: Ella Baker's organizational affiliations, 1927-1986.