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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]
She wrote, directed and produced Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker, a documentary about civil rights leader Ella Baker, in 1981. [3] [2] Actor Harry Belafonte was the narrator; the film was shown on PBS and at the London Film Festival. [3] [2] Grant was the author of three books about 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.
Hamer was born as Fannie Lou Townsend on October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi.She was the last of the 20 children of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend. [5]In 1919, the Townsends moved to Ruleville, Mississippi, to work as sharecroppers on W. D. Marlow's plantation. [6]
He became a major voting rights activist in Mississippi and Alabama after being mentored by Ella Baker and Bob Moses. Like most young people in the SNCC, he became disillusioned with the two-party system after the 1964 Democratic National Convention failed to recognize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party as official delegates from the state.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Family members identified the 14-year-old as Devin Baker, an eighth-grade student at Rosemont Middle School. His family also lives in the Peppertree Acres Apartments. Devin died at the scene.
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.