Ella Baker Freedom Bound by Joanne Grant (Review)

Ella Baker Freedom Bound by Joanne Grant (John Wiley and Sons, 1998)

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Ella Baker Freedom Bound by Joanne Grant (Review)

by Edward O. Frantz
Southern Cultures, Vol. 6, No. 2: Summer 2000

John Wiley and Sons, 1998

Until this biography, students had to be content with only morsels of information from other publications about civil-rights activist Ella Baker, but Joanne Grant’s narrative traces Baker’s combative spirit back to the legacy of her grandparents, who were former slaves, and stresses a continuity of resistance within the African American community.

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