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“This book on Ella Baker is so important, because it allows students and readers to understand the Black freedom struggle and the civil rights movement, and it’s shot through the life of a phenomenal human being, who really was an important person. At every single significant struggle for black freedom and civil rights in this country, Ella Baker was there.” Read more...
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“There are so many great biographies in Black women’s history; this is one of the best. Barbara Ransby really excavates the life of Ella Baker, who was instrumental to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which was one of the most important civil rights organizations of the 1960s.” Read more...
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