Ella Baker - Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement

Ella Josephine Baker was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern US history, the civil rights movement. In this book, historian J. Todd Moye masterfully reconstructs Baker's life and contribution for a new generation of readers.

List of contents

Dedication
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Ella Baker and the Paradox of Egalitarian Leadership
Chapter 1: A Deep Sense of Community
Chapter 2: Hotbed of Radical Thinking
Chapter 3: Give Light and the People Will Find a Way
Chapter 4: The Hard Job of Getting Down and Helping People
Chapter 5: Bigger Than a Hamburger
Chapter 6: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest
Chapter 7: The Tribe Increases
Index
Acknowledgments

About the author

By J. Todd Moye - Series edited by John David Smith

Summary

Ella Josephine Baker was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern US history, the civil rights movement. In this book, historian J. Todd Moye masterfully reconstructs Baker's life and contribution for a new generation of readers.

Product details

• Authors: J. Todd Moye, J.todd Moye
• Assisted by: John David Smith (Editor), Smith John David (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2013
• EAN: 9781442215658
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1565-8
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Library of African American Biography; Library of African American Bi; Library of African American Biography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, Biography: historical, political and military, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional