We Who Believe in Freedom | University of North Carolina Press ~ Lea E. Williams

We Who Believe in Freedom

The Life and Times of Ella Baker

Lea E. Williams

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: North Carolina Office of Archives and History
Published: 11/2017
Pages: 114
Subject: Juvenile Nonfiction | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780865264755

DESCRIPTION

The second volume in the True Tales for Young Readers series, this short biography of the civil rights leader is intended for middle school and high school readers. Ella Baker, who grew up in Littleton, North Carolina, is best remembered for the role she played in facilitating in April 1960 the organizational meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at Shaw University, her alma mater. With passion and clear understanding, Lea E. Williams outlines the life that brought Baker to this crucial point in U.S. history.