Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: a radical democratic vision
Ransby,Barbara2012
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Main title:
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: a radical democratic vision / Barbara Ransby (Large :Print 16pt)
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Imprint:
ReadHowYouWant 2012
Collation:
548 pages : Large print 16pt
Notes:
A biography of African American civil rights activist Ella Baker (1903-1986). She was a national officer and key figure in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and, along with Martin Luther King Jr., one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Baker made a place for herself in male-dominated political circles that included Martin Luther King Jr., W.E.B DuBois, Thurgood Marshall and A. Philip Randolf. Her most notable political accomplishment was her unique role as the main political advisor to the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s. A committed teacher, she also served as an intellectual mentor to a new generation of leaders such as Bob Moses, Julian Bond, Marian Wright Edelman, Connie Curry and Eleanor Holmes Norton. Baker was committed to empowering the black poor and emphasised group-centered, grassroots leadership. She modeled a new style of black female political leadership.
ISBN:
9781459658042
Dewey class:
323.092
Local class:
HI.3.02/RAN
Language:
English
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BRN:
2374618