Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by 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. A gifted grassroots organizer, Baker shunned the spotlight in favour of vital behind-the-scenes work that helped power the black freedom stuggle. She was a national officer and key figure in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and a prime mover in the creation of the Studetn Noviolent Co-ordinating Committee. Baker made a place for herself in the predominantly male political circles that included W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King Jr, all the while maintaining relationships with a vibrant group of women, students and activists both black and white. In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual and a teacher, from her early experiences in depression-era Harlem to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Ransby shows Baker to be a complex figure whose radical, democratic worldview, commitment to empowering the black poor, and emphasis on group-centred, grassroots leadership set her apart from most of her political contemporaries. Beyond documenting an extraordinary life, the book paints a vivid picture of the African American fight for justice and its intersections with other progressive struggles worldwide across the 20th century.

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ISBN 13	9780807827789
ISBN 10	0807827789
Title	Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
Author	Barbara Ransby
Series	Gender And American Culture
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The University of North Carolina Press
Year published	2003-04-30
Number of pages	496
Prizes	Winner of Lillian Smith Book Awards (Fiction) 2004, Commended for Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award (Nonfiction) 2004
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