AuthorRansby, Barbara
TitleElla Baker and the Black freedom movement [electronic resource] : a radical democratic vision / Barbara Ransby
Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
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Descript xvii, 470 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. Baker
  2. Ella
  3. 1903-1986
  4. African American women civil rights workers -- Biography
  5. Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
  6. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  7. African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
  8. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography
  9. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -- Biography
  10. Southern States -- Race relations
  11. United States -- Race relations
  12. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -- Biography
  13. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. -- Biography
  14. Electronic books.