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Apr 2, 2014 · Ella Baker became one of the leading figures of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s. Following her early work for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,...
Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades.
Apr 23, 2024 · Ella Baker, American community organizer and political activist who brought her skills and principles to bear in the major civil rights organizations of the mid-20th century. She notably helped form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
This is the life story of Ella Baker, a grassroots organizer and outspoken leader in the Black civil rights movement.
Apr 18, 2007 · Through her decades of work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and later with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Ella Baker emerged as one of the most important women in the civil rights movement.
Baker, Ella Josephine. December 13, 1903 to December 13, 1986. Rejecting Martin Luther King’s charismatic leadership, Ella Baker advised student activists organizing the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to promote “group-centered leaders” rather than the “leader-centered” style she associated with King’s Southern ...
American activist Ella Baker (1903-1986) was the consummate organizer and unsung brains behind many of the most effective African American civil rights and political organizations in the twentieth century.
