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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.
Ella Baker, civil rights activist; James Baldwin, civil rights activist, novelist, playwright [5] ... Erica Garner, civil rights and Black Lives Matter activist [21]
Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer and civil rights activist who became one of the most important historical figures in the American justice system. ... Freedom Bound,” “Ella Baker and the Black ...
Many Black women participating in informal leadership positions, acting as natural "bridge leaders" and, thus, working in the background in communities and rallying support for the movement at a local level, partly explains why standard narratives neglect to acknowledge the imperative roles of women in the civil rights movement.
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights opened in 1996 and calls Baker “an unsung hero of racial and economic justice, the civil rights movement.” That she was. And her legacy remains strong today.
Baker served as a civil rights activist and worked with the NAACP. Read part 1 of this series here: Black History Month in Sheboygan: Finding cultural connectivity through music
Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement: Willa Brown: 1906 1992 United States: civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M ...
Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King was a pillar of the civil rights movement. She played a central role in King's work, having given up her dream of being a singer to support her husband and ...