Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

by Ransby, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780807827789
• ISBN10: 0807827789
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Beyond documenting the extraordinary life of activist Ella Baker, this book paints a vivid picture of the African-American fight for justice and its intersections with other progressive struggles worldwide across the 20th century. 14 illustrations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Abbreviations	xix
Introduction	1	(12)
Now, Who Are Your People?: Norfolk, Virginia, and Littleton, North Carolina, 1903--1918	13	(33)
A Reluctant Rebel and an Exceptional Student: Shaw Academy and Shaw University, 1918--1927	46	(18)
Harlem during the 1930s: The Making of a Black Radical Activist and Intellectual	64	(41)
Fighting Her Own Wars: The NAACP National Office, 1940--1946	105	(43)
Cops, Schools, and Communism: Local Politics and Global Ideologies--New York City in the 1950s	148	(22)
The Preacher and the Organizer: The Politics of Leadership in the Early Civil Rights Movement	170	(39)
New Battlefields and New Allies: Shreveport, Birmingham, and the Southern Conference Education Fund	209	(30)
Mentoring a New Generation of Activists: The Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960--1961	239	(34)
The Empowerment of an Indigenous Southern Black Leadership, 1961--1964	273	(26)
Mississippi Goddamn: Fighting for Freedom in the Belly of the Beast of Southern Racism	299	(31)
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Radical Campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s	330	(27)
A Freirian Teacher, a Gramscian Intellectual, and a Radical Humanist: Ella Baker's Legacy	357	(18)
Appendix. Ella Baker's Organizational Affiliations, 1927--1986	375	(2)
Notes	377	(48)
Bibliography	425	(26)
Index	451