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100			_aBarbara, Ransby
245			_aElla Baker and the black freedom movement: a radical democratic vision
260			_bUniversity of North Carolina Press, _c2003. _aChapel Hill:
300			_axvii, 470 p. : ill. ; _bpb; _c22 cm.
365			_aUSD _b37.50
440			_aGender and American culture
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aFiercely independent and intensely committed to democracy, Ella Baker was a gifted grassroots organizer who 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 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 King, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, and A. Philip Randolph, all the while nurturing political relationships with women, students, and activists - both black and white - across organizational and ideological boundaries. Baker's most notable political accomplishment was her unique role as the main political adviser to the Student Nonviolent 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.
650			_aPolitical Science
650			_aAfrican American Women Civil Rights Workers
650			_aAfrican Americans-Civil Rights
650			_aCivil Rights Movements
650			_aRace Relations
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