Barbara Ransby is a historian, author and longtime activist. She is author of the acclaimed biography, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement. Barbara was one of the founders of African American Women in Defense of Ourselves in 1991 and the Black Radical Congress in 1998. She is Editor of the journal, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, and Professor and Director of the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago

• Introduction1. Roots and Recalibrated Expectations: Prologue to a Movement2. Justice for Trayvon: The Spark3. The Ferguson Uprising and Its Reverberations4. Black Rage and Blacks in Power: Baltimore and Electoral Politics5. Themes, Dilemmas, and Challenges6. Backlash and a Price7. A View from the Local: Chicago’s Fighting Spirit8. Political Quilters and Maroon SpacesConclusionEpilogue: A Personal ReflectionAcknowledgmentsNotesGlossaryKey FiguresSelected Bibliography

“This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change.”

Barbara Ransby is a historian, author and longtime activist. She is author of the acclaimed biography, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement. Barbara was one of the founders of African American Women in Defense of Ourselves in 1991 and the Black Radical Congress in 1998. She is Editor of the journal, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, and Professor and Director of the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago

• Introduction1. Roots and Recalibrated Expectations: Prologue to a Movement2. Justice for Trayvon: The Spark3. The Ferguson Uprising and Its Reverberations4. Black Rage and Blacks in Power: Baltimore and Electoral Politics5. Themes, Dilemmas, and Challenges6. Backlash and a Price7. A View from the Local: Chicago’s Fighting Spirit8. Political Quilters and Maroon SpacesConclusionEpilogue: A Personal ReflectionAcknowledgmentsNotesGlossaryKey FiguresSelected Bibliography

“This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change.”

Barbara Ransby is a historian, author and longtime activist. She is author of the acclaimed biography, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement. Barbara was one of the founders of African American Women in Defense of Ourselves in 1991 and the Black Radical Congress in 1998. She is Editor of the journal, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, and Professor and Director of the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago

• Introduction1. Roots and Recalibrated Expectations: Prologue to a Movement2. Justice for Trayvon: The Spark3. The Ferguson Uprising and Its Reverberations4. Black Rage and Blacks in Power: Baltimore and Electoral Politics5. Themes, Dilemmas, and Challenges6. Backlash and a Price7. A View from the Local: Chicago’s Fighting Spirit8. Political Quilters and Maroon SpacesConclusionEpilogue: A Personal ReflectionAcknowledgmentsNotesGlossaryKey FiguresSelected Bibliography

“This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change.”