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

Author

Barbara Ransby

Call Number

• 921 B1675R (OSH)

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Publication Information

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003.

Physical Description

xvii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Summary

A portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century introduces readers to the fiery woman who inspired generations of activists.

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.