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Subject(s)

• Baker, Ella 1903-1986 [Browse]
• African American women civil rights workers—Biography [Browse]
• Civil rights workers—United States—Biography [Browse]
• Civil rights movements—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• African Americans—Civil rights—History—20th century [Browse]
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—Biography [Browse]
• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party—Biography [Browse]
• Southern States—Race relations [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Biographies [Browse]

Series

• Black women writers series [More in this series]
• Gender & American culture

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-450) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

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.

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Other title(s)

Ella Baker & the Black freedom movement

ISBN

0807827789 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002153275

OCLC

51003919

RCP

H - S

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