Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
Subtitle: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780807856161
Subjects: Biography: general; Black studies; Civil rights & citizenship; Politics / Current Events; People of Color; Political Science; Biography / Autobiography; Politics/International Relations; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; W. E. B. Du Bois; A. Philip Randolph; Thurgood Marshall; Martin Luther King Jr.; Ruby Hurley; Lucille Black; Pauli Murray; NAACP; Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); civil rights; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - 20th Century
First sentence: In the early 1980s Paula Giddings, the writer and historian, went to Ella Baker's modest Harlem apartment to interview the legendary activist for a book Giddings was writing on African American women's history.