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Making all Black lives matter : reimagining freedom in the twenty-first century
\"In the wake of the murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women activists launched a hashtag and social-media platform, Black Lives Matter, which would become the rubric for a larger movement. To many, especially those in the media, Black Lives Matter appeared to burst onto the national political landscape out of thin air. But as Barbara Ransby shows in Making All Black Lives Matter, the movement has roots in prison abolition, anti-police violence, black youth movements, and radical mobilizations across the country dating back at least a decade. Ransby interviewed more than a dozen of the movement's principal organizers and activists, and she provides a detailed review of its extensive coverage in mainstream and social media. Making All Black Lives Matter offers one of the first overviews of Black Lives Matter and explores the challenges and possible future for this growing and influential movement\"--Provided by publisher.
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Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision
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 struggle. Making her way in predominantly male circles while maintaining relationships with a vibrant group of women, students, and activists, Baker was a national officer and key figure in the NAACP, a founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and a prime mover in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
In this definitive biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles Baker's long and rich career, revealing her complexity, radical democratic worldview, and enduring influence on group-centered, grassroots activism. Beyond documenting an extraordinary life, Ransby paints a vivid picture of the African American fight for justice and its intersections with other progressive struggles worldwide throughout the twentieth century.
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An Interview with Barbara Ransby, Editor, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
An interview with Barbara Ransby, editor of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, is presented. Among other things, Ransby shares how she become the journal's editor.
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DANCING ON THE EDGES OF HISTORY, BUT NEVER DANCING ALONE
What does it mean to be a black female historian in 2006? Some argue that it should simply mean being a good scholar and that’s it. They contend that notions of race and gender are twentieth-century anachronisms that obscure more than they illuminate. I only wish it were true. My experience, and that of hundreds of other female historians of African descent working and struggling in the academy, tells a very different story. It is a story that reflects slow, erratic progress but also persistent, intractable prejudice augmented by the precedent of generations of institutional racism. It is a story
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KATRINA, BLACK WOMEN, AND THE DEADLY DISCOURSE ON BLACK POVERTY IN AMERICA
This article explores the suffering and resilience of Black women who
were impacted by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. It also explores the
ways in which the pre-existing national discourse on poverty, race, and
gender set the stage for victim blaming and the neglect of poor Black
women and children after the storm. African American women in the Gulf
Coast region are some of the poorest in the nation. Women in general are
more vulnerable in times of natural disaster because they are the primary
caretakers of the young and the old. These factors and others meant that
poor Black women were among those most severely impacted by Hurricane
Katrina. They also had minimal resources to cope with the disaster and its
aftermath. However, instead of sympathy and support, some conservative
pundits have sought to link the suffering caused by Katrina to the lack of
patriarchal Black family structures, which they argue could have helped
individuals survive in the crisis. Contrary to these stereotypes, many
Black women have not only been resilient and self-reliant, but creative
and heroic in the face of crisis. It is their stories that offer hope for
the future of New Orleans and our nation.
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Civil Rights in New York City
Since the 1960s, most U.S. History has been written as if the civil rights movement were primarily or entirely a Southern history. This book joins a growing body of scholarship that demonstrates the importance of the Northern history of the movement. The contributors make clear that civil rights in New York City were contestedin many ways, beginning long before the 1960s, and across many groups with a surprisingly wide range of political perspectives. Civil Rights in New York City provides a sample of the rich historical record of the fight for racial justice in the city that was home to the nation's largest population of African-Americans in mid-twentiethcentury America.The ten contributions brought together here address varying aspects of New York's civil rights struggle, including the role of labor, community organizing campaigns, the pivotal actions of prominent national leaders, the movement for integrated housing, the fight for racial equality in public higher education, and the part played by a revolutionary group that challenged structural, societal inequality. Long before the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Jr. helped launch the Harlem Bus Boycott of 1941. The New York City's Teachers' Union had been fighting for racial equality since 1935. Ella Baker worked with the NAACP and the city's grassroots movement to force the city to integrate its public school system. In 1962, a directaction campaign by Brooklyn CORE, a racially integrated membership organization, forced the city to provide better sanitation services to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn's largest black community. Integrating Rochdale Village in South Jamaica, the largest middle-class housing cooperative in New York, brought together an unusual coalition of leftists, liberal Democrats, moderate Republicans, pragmatic government officials,and business executives.In reexamining these and other key events, Civil Rights in New York City reaffirms their importance to the larger national fight for equality for Americans across racial lines.
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Cops, Schools, and Communism
In 1952, Ella Baker was elected president of the large New York City NAACP branch, becoming its first woman president. She had been active in the branch for several years, working with the youth council and several other projects, but her new post provided her with the latitude and authority to orchestrate some of the kinds of political campaigns she had long envisioned. After traveling around the country for two decades aiding grassroots groups to develop activist campaigns for change, she now had an opportunity to shape and direct such a movement in the heart of New York City. Her
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