Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision / / Barbara Ransby
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| Autore: |
Ransby Barbara
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| Titolo: |
Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision / / Barbara Ransby
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (496 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323/.092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Southern States Race relations |
| United States Race relations | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908701-2-4 |
| 9780807862703 | |
| 0-8078-6270-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809880703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Gender & American culture.