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  • SNCC

    The New Abolitionists (Expanded Edition)

    by Howard Zinn, Barbara Ransby ...
    Howard Zinn’s classic account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the most significant and creative organizations to shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United StatesSNCC: The New Abolitionists has influenced generations of readers seeking to learn from the successes and failures of SNCC organizers. Zinn’s documentation of the process of social change ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

    A Radical Democratic Vision

    by Barbara Ransby ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.A gifted grassroots organizer, Baker shunned the spotlight in favor of vital behind-the-scenes work that helped power the black freedom ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, Second Edition

    A Radical Democratic Vision

    by Barbara Ransby ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903–1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives. A gifted grassroots organizer, Baker shunned the spotlight in favor of vital behind-the-scenes work that helped power the Black freedom ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Eslanda

    The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson

    by Barbara Ransby ...
    Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalin's Russia, and China two months after Mao's revolution. She was a woman of unusual accomplishment—an anthropologist, a prolific journalist, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Reshaping Women's History

    Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

    by Nupur Chaudhuri, Midori Green, Frances L Buss, Lisa DiCaprio, Julie R Enszer, Catherine Fosl, La Shonda Mims, Stephanie Moore, Grey Osterud, Barbara Ransby, Linda Reese, Annette Rodriguez, Linda Rupert, Kathleen Sheldon, Donna Sinclair, Rickie Solinger, Pamela J. Stewart, Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, Ann Marie Wilson ...
    Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
    Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through figurative--and sometimes literal--minefields. Their life stories offer inspiration, but also describe heartrending struggles and daunting obstacles. Reshaping Women's History presents autobiographical essays by eighteen accomplished scholar-activists who persevered through ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Making All Black Lives Matter

    Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century

    by Barbara Ransby ...
    Series Book 6 - American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present
    "A powerful — and personal — account of the movement and its players."—The Washington Post“This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change.”—Publishers WeeklyThe breadth and impact of Black Lives Matter in the United States has been extraordinary. Between 2012 and 2016, thousands of ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

    A Radical Democratic Vision

    by Barbara Ransby ...
    Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.A gifted grassroots organizer, Baker shunned the spotlight in favor of vital behind-the-scenes work that helped power the black freedom ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Making All Black Lives Matter

    Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century

    by Barbara Ransby ...
    Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    The breadth and impact of Black Lives Matter in the United States has been extraordinary. Between 2012 and 2016, thousands of people marched, rallied, held vigils, and engaged in direct actions to protest and draw attention to state and vigilante violence against Black people. What began as outrage over the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin and the exoneration of his killer, and accelerated during the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Struggle for Black Equality

    by Harvard Sitkoff ...
    The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • I've Got the Light of Freedom

    The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface

    by Charles M. Payne ...
    This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature. ... Read more

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  • The Promised Land

    The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

    by Nicholas Lemann ...
    A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • To Make Our World Anew

    A History of African Americans

    Edited by Robin D. G. Kelley, Earl Lewis ...
    Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is a panoramic view of African American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short ... Read more

    $17.99 USD