Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-450) and index.

1. Now, Who Are Your People?: Norfolk, Virginia, and Littleton, North Carolina, 1903-1918 13 -- 2. A Reluctant Rebel and an Exceptional Student: Show Academy and Shaw University, 1918-1927 46 -- 3. Harlem during the 1930s: The Making of a Black Radical ACtivist and Intellectual 64 -- 4. Fighting Her Own Wars: The NAACP National Office, 1940-1946 105 -- 5. Cops, Schools, and Communism: Local Politics and Global Ideologies--New York City in the 1950s 148 -- 6. Preacher and the Organizer: The Politics of Leadership in the Early Civil Rights Movement 170 -- 7. New Battlefields and New Allies: Shreveport, Birmingham, and the Southern Conference Education Fund 209 -- 8. Mentoring a New Generation of Activists: The Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960-1961 239 -- 9. Empowerment of an Indigenous Southern Black Leadership, 1961-1964 273 -- 10. Mississippi Goddamn: Fighting for Freedom in the Belly of the Beast of Southern Racism 299 -- 11. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Radical Campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s 330 -- 12. A Freirian Teacher, a Gramscian Intellectual, and a Radical Humanist: Ella Baker's Legacy 357 -- Appendix Ella Baker's Organizational Affiliations, 1927-1986 375.

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