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Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement [electronic resource] : a radical democratic vision / Barbara Ransby.
One of the most important African American leaders of the 20th century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned 50 years and touched thousands of lives.
Record details
- ISBN: 0807862703 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780807862704 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780807827789 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0807827789 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 470 p.) : ill.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.19 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-450) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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