Joanne Grant

JOANNE GRANT began her career in civil rights as assistant to NAACP founder W. E. B. Du Bois. While working as a reporter for the National Guardian in the 1960s, she joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and became a close associate of Ella Baker. She produced Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker, a documentary film nationally telecast on PBS, and is the editor of Black Protest, a classic documentary history, and Confrontation on Campus. She lives in New York City.

JOANNE GRANT began her career in civil rights as assistant to NAACP founder W. E. B. Du Bois. While working as a reporter for the National Guardian in the 1960s, she joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and became a close associate of Ella Baker. She produced Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker, a documentary film nationally telecast on PBS, and is the editor of Black Protest, a classic documentary history, and Confrontation on Campus. She lives in New York City. See less