eBook for Equity: Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision

This week, we’re featuring the title Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby. Dr. Ransby is the John D. MacArthur Chair, and Distinguished Professor, in the Departments of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Published by University of North Carolina Press in 2003, the book was the recipient of 8 national book awards and recognitions including the Liberty – Legacy award from the Organization of American Historians; the Joan Kelly prize from the American Historical Association; and the James A. Rawley Prize (also from the AHA). In 2018 the Chronicle of Higher Education acknowledged the biography as “one of the most influential books of the last twenty years.”
Hampshire community members can access the ebook at:

https://fcaw.library.umass.edu/F/?func=direct&doc_number=013899186&doc_library=FCL01