A review by whattheresareads
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby

5.0

Really great. Though I am rarely, if ever, a fan of historical biographies, this was riveting both because it was about a pretty awesome lady (Ella Baker) whose influence in the Civil Rights Movement is overlooked for various reasons and because Ransby really does well with moving between in-depth personal biography and a more broad historical and social analysis. It's long, but it goes quickly.