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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.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr. , who had a large role in the American civil rights movement .
By 1958, Baker moved to Atlanta to join Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She was charged with organizing the Crusade for Citizenship, designed to help Black ...
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed in April 1960 at a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, attended by 126 student delegates from 58 sit-in centers in 12 states, from 19 northern colleges, and from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), the National ...
The march was organized by A. Philip Randolph, [1] Bayard Rustin, [2] [3] and Ella Baker. It was supported by the NAACP and the recently founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference . Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D-NY) had asked the planners to avoid embarrassing the Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower administration , and they ...
Ella Baker served as a temporary director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, serving as a bridge leader responsible for connecting participants with formal modes of power. Through the SNCC, she created networks for student activists who wished to contribute to the organization.
The goal of the project was to double the number of African-American voters in the southern United States for the 1958 and 1960 elections. It was initially organized by Ella Baker as Associate Director of the SCLC, and Reverend John Tilley as the first Executive Director. While encouraging discussion and actions related to voter registration ...
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