Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Free Audiobook Download by Barbara Ransby

The Black Freedom Movement in the United States was a nationwide campaign that used direct action and civil disobedience to challenge racial segregation, discrimination, and white supremacy. The movement sought to dismantle institutional racism by dismantling the legal basis of segregation, busing schools and local governments to end white supremacy.

"The Civil Rights Movement, in its 'unfolding' of history, had to be redefined in the aftermath of the Communist Party's separation from the movement. There was a loss of identity that created a vacuum and a need for another movement to emerge. This was an un-finished movement that found new impetus with the emergence of Black Power."

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision is an audiobook that tells the history of the women who made up the Black Freedom Movement. This is a book about one woman, Ella Baker. It also discusses how she helped to create the Civil Rights Movement as well as other work she did as a social activist.

The story of Ella Baker and her role in the Black Freedom Movement is set against a backdrop of important events in twentieth century American politics. Through an examination of the lives of black activists like Baker, Manning Marable, Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and others, author Barbara Ransby asserts that black people have been at the center of democratic struggles stretching back to the country's beginnings. By calling for a radical democracy where all Americans are able to participate fully in decision-making processes, these civil rights leaders believed that African Americans would be able to make their own choices about how to live rather than continue to be affected by white supremacist policies.

In this audiobook, author Barbara Ransby traces the roots of the Black Freedom Movement in America and how to continue the struggle for freedom into the 21st century.

Ella Baker was an American civil rights activist, an organizational co-founder of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, a grassroots organizer and a brilliant writer. As an organizer, Baker believed in "radical democracy," which involved putting power into the hands of ordinary people, empowering them with information about what is happening in their community. Baker was also a powerful advocate for women's rights because she saw how a lack of access to education, jobs, and resources led to women being exploited as sexual objects.