TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grant,Joanne
AU  - Bond,Julian
TI  - Ella Baker: freedom bound 
SN  - 0471020206
AV  - E 185 .97 .B214 G72 1998
U1  - 323/.092B 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
KW  - Baker, Ella,
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Biography
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - United States
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes a speech given by Ella Baker at the Institute for the Black World (pages 227-231); Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index; 1. Roots of rebellion -- 2. Reveling in new ideas -- 3. Putting people in motion: the NAACP years -- 4. The travel was bum -- 5. The Northern challenge -- 6. Confronting "De Lawd" -- 7. Political mama -- 8. On the way to freedom land -- 9. Grassroots politics -- 10. In her image -- 11. Black power's gon' get your mama!
N2  - "This reverential, earnest biography of civil rights pioneer Ella Baker (1903-1986) should give her the wider recognition she deserves. Born in Virginia, raised in North Carolina, a community activist and New York newspaper reporter during the Harlem Renaissance, Baker in 1947 helped organize a series of interracial bus trips to test segregation laws in the South, a remarkable precursor of the bloody Freedom Rides of 1961. She was instrumental in establishing two key organizations: the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which grew out of the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. A mentor to civil rights workers, she supported SNCC's metamorphosis in the mid-1960s into an all-black, militant black power group and, as Grant notes, turned a blind eye to the prevalence of weapons among its zealous recruits. Grant, producer of Fundi, a PBS television documentary about Baker, chronicles her subject's battles for school desegregation; consumer, tenants' and labor causes; her faith in grassroots democracy; and the empowerment of ordinary people." -- from Publishers Weekly
UR  - https://archive.org/details/ellabakerfreedom0000gran
ER  -