Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement [[electronic resource] ] : a radical democratic vision / / Barbara Ransby

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780224303321
• Autore: Ransby Barbara
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
• ISBN: 979-88-908701-2-4; 9780807862703; 0-8078-6270-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (496 p.)
• Collana: Gender & American culture
• Disciplina: 323/.092; B
• Soggetti: African American women civil rights workers; Civil rights workers - United States; Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century; African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century; Southern States Race relations; United States Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-450) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Now, Who Are Your People?: Norfolk, Virginia, and Littleton, North Carolina, 1903–1918; 2. A Reluctant Rebel and an Exceptional Student: Shaw Academy and Shaw University, 1918–1927; 3. Harlem During the 1930's: The Making of a Black Radical Activist and Intellectual; 4. Fighting Her Own Wars: The NAACP National Office, 1940–1946; 5. Cops, Schools, and Communism: Local Politics and Global Ideologies— New York City in the 1950's; 6. The Preacher and the Organizer: The Politics of Leadership in the Early Civil Rights Movement Section of Photos; 7. New Battlefields and New Allies: Shreveport, Birmingham, and the Southern Conference Education Fund; 8. Mentoring a New Generation of Activists: The Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960–1961; 9. The Empowerment of an Indigenous Southern Black Leadership, 1961–1964; 10. Mississippi Goddamn: Fighting for Freedom in the Belly of ; the Beast of Southern Racism; 11. The M
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.