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Barbara Ransby

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in Detroit, Michigan, The United States

May 12, 1957

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Barbara Ransby is an historian, writer and longtime activist. She is a Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she directs both the campus-wide Social Justice Initiative and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. She previously served as Interim Vice Provost for Planning and Programs (2011 -2012) at UIC. Prof. Ransby is author of the highly acclaimed biography, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. The book received eight national awards and recognitions including: Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council; Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association; Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize, Asso ...more

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	How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor), Barbara Smith (Contributor), Beverly Smith (Contributor) 4.47 avg rating — 4,660 ratings — published 2017 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision 4.34 avg rating — 1,669 ratings — published 2003 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Panthers Speak by Philip S.Foner (Editor), Clayborne Carson (Introduction)(Contributor), Barbara Ransby (Foreward)(Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 746 ratings — published 1970 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 6) 4.15 avg rating — 198 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson 4.27 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower by Deborah Gray White (Editor), Brenda E. Stevenson (Contributor), Mia Bay (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians by Nupur Chaudhuri (Afterword), Midori Green (Contributor), Frances L. Buss (Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta.: An article from: Journal of Southern History 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“From her perspective, reading, discussions, forums, and lectures were as important to a movement for social change as mass protests, boycotts, and strikes.”
― Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision

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“To young women, black and white, Baker embodied the possibility of escaping the restrictions that defined conventional femininity. Authoritative yet unassuming, self-confident and assertive, forcing others to take her seriously simply by presuming that they would, Baker was a revelation.”
― Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision

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“former Confederate leaders had begun to regain political power in the South, staging targeted and effective misinformation campaigns to unseat progressive Blacks like Francis who had managed to secure positions of influence during Reconstruction.”
― Barbara Ransby, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson

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