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