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ISBN 10: 0807862703
ISBN 13: 9780807862704
Author: Barbara Ransby

One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives. A gifted grassroots organizer, Baker shunned the spotlight in favor of vital behind-the-scenes work that helped power the black freedom struggle. 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 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Baker made a place for herself in 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-centered, 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 twentieth century.

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement A Radical Democratic Vision First Table of contents:

1. Now, Who Are Your People?: Norfolk, Virginia, and Littleton, North Carolina, 1903–1918
Spreading the Faith and Uplifting the Race
The Promise and Perils of Life in Norfolk
Coming Home to Littleton
Class and Community
Notes

2. A Reluctant Rebel and an Exceptional Student: Shaw Academy and Shaw University, 1918–1927
Coming into Her Own
A Polite Dissident and a Reluctant Rebel
Notes

3. Harlem During the 1930s: The Making of a Black Radical Activist and Intellectual
The Education of a Radical Intellectual
The Young Negroes’ Cooperative League and the Dream of a New Social Order
The Workers Education Project
Internationalism and the Black Diaspora
A Most Unconventional Marriage
Notes

4. Fighting Her Own Wars: The NAACP National Office, 1940–1946
Field Work for the NAACP
Friendship and Friction in the NAACP Family
Dangers All Around
Class, Gender, and Personal Politics
Give People Light and They Will Find the Way
Time to Move On
Notes

5. Cops, Schools, and Communism: Local Politics and Global Ideologies— New York City in the 1950s
Notes

6. The Preacher and the Organizer: The Politics of Leadership in the Early Civil Rights Movement
Forming the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Gender Inequity within the Movement
Baker and King
Missionaries and Messiahs
Notes

Section of Photos

7. New Battlefields and New Allies: Shreveport, Birmingham, and the Southern Conference Education Fund
Nothing Too Dear to Pay for Freedom
Birmingham
Shreveport
Carl and Anne Braden and the Southern Conference Education Fund
The Advent of the Sit-In Movement
Notes

8. Mentoring a New Generation of Activists: The Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Setting the Stage and Planting the Seeds
The Summer of 1960
Personal Matters
An Alternative Model of Womanhood
Molding a New Organization
Freedom Rides
Notes

9. The Empowerment of an Indigenous Southern Black Leadership, 1961–1964
Solidarity with the Black Poor in Fayette County
Developing a Philosophy from Practice
Southwest Georgia: Political Differences and Personal Loyalties
SCEF
Gender Politics and Grassroots Organizing
Notes

10. Mississippi Goddamn: Fighting for Freedom in the Belly of the Beast of Southern Racism
Amzie and Ruth Moore
Driving Deeper into the Delta
Reflecting on Experience and Setting a Course
Freedom Day, January 1964
Freedom Summer
Self-Defense and Nonviolence in the Summer Project
Freedom Schools
Notes

11. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Radical Campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s
A Political Gamble in Atlantic City
Coming to Grips with Black Power
Free Angela, Free Ourselves
Notes

12. A Freirian Teacher, a Gramscian Intellectual, and a Radical Humanist: Ella Baker’s Legacy
Teacher and Practitioner of a Radical Democratic Pedagogy
A Different Construction of Gender Identity
Situational Democracy and Humanistic Practice
The Outsider Within
Notes

Appendix: Ella Baker’s Organizational Affiliations, 1927–1986 (A Partial List)
Notes

Bibliography

Index

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