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Ella Josephine Baker was born on December 13, 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia, [8] to Georgiana (called Anna) and Blake Baker, and first raised there. She was the second of three surviving children, bracketed by her older brother Blake Curtis and younger sister Maggie. [9]
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.
Ella Baker School is a pre-K through 8th grade school serving approximately 317 students (as of 2012). [38] It is named after the African-American civil rights and human rights activist Ella Josephine Baker. [39] This school was founded 1996 by former teachers and administrators from Central Park East Elementary School. [40]
Josephine Baker danced to it in her return to the United States in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, but neither she nor the song was successful. Two years later, however, bandleader Artie Shaw recorded an arrangement of the song, an extended swing orchestra version, in collaboration with his arranger and orchestrator , Jerry Gray .
Baker Montessori School serves as the neighborhood elementary school for a section of Neartown, [14] [15] including the Cherryhurst main and addition subdivisions, [16] [17] a portion of the original Montrose subdivision, [18] a portion of Hyde Park, [19] Mandell Place, Park, Vermont Commons, WAMM, and Winlow Place, as well as most of Audubon Place and portions of Avondale, Lancaster Place ...
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a non-profit strategy and action center based in Oakland, California. The stated aim of the center is to work for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America. [1] It is named for Ella Baker, a twentieth-century activist and civil rights leader originally from Virginia and North Carolina.
Baker, c. 1908 Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri. [11] [14] [15] Baker's ancestry is unknown—her mother, Carrie, was adopted in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1886 by Richard and Elvira McDonald, both of whom were former slaves of African and Native American descent. [11]
The jerseys were auctioned off for the Ella Josephine Baker scholarship at Tougaloo College. [20] The Nine. Joseph Jackson Jr. Albert Lassiter; Alfred Cook;