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Ella Baker was born in 1903 in Norfolk, Virginia. She spent most of her childhood in rural North Carolina, listening to her grandparents tell stories about being enslaved. At a young age, Ella developed a strong appreciation for hard work and community. She saw her family and friends supporting one another, in good times and bad.
Dec 2, 2021 · Published December 2, 2021. Updated October 23, 2023. From teaching Rosa Parks how to protest to organizing student activists, Ella Baker was one of America's most tireless civil rights leaders — all while operating largely behind the scenes. Ella Baker had an enormous influence on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Apr 18, 2007 · Ella Baker (1903-1986) 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.
Jan 20, 2020 · Ella Josephine Baker, a black North Carolina native who migrated to New York in the 1920s, was a major part of that ground crew for over 50 years, and her legacy lives on in today’s social...
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 ...
Jan 16, 2017 · A granddaughter of slaves who graduated valedictorian from Raleigh’s Shaw University in 1927, Baker spent nearly half a century raising the political consciousness of Americans, and played a...
We are named after Ella Baker, a brilliant, black hero of the civil rights movement. Following in her footsteps, we organize with Black, Brown, and low-income people to shift resources away from prisons and punishment, and towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy, and strong.
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