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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 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.
authors and civil rights activists [131] Virginia Foster Durr: Honorary: civil rights activist who supported sit-ins and the Freedom Rides [131] [134] Ava DuVernay: Honorary: filmmaker known for Selma [135] Stephanie Elam: Alpha CNN Business News correspondent [136] Edith Finlayson: Honorary: nurse and civil rights activist [131] Ella ...
Addie L. Wyatt (née Cameron; March 8, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was a leader in the United States Labor movement and a civil rights activist. Wyatt is known for being the first African-American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union .
Who was Ella Baker? You may not have heard of Ella Baker before, but this Virginia-born activist was just as indispensable to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther King Jr. or W.E.B. Du ...
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 their justice efforts ...
It was President Lyndon B. Johnson who saw the controversial 1964 Civil Rights Act through, a victory for the Civil Rights Movement made possible because of the children of Birmingham. The children who died in the church bombing were Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson, all 14, and Denise McNair, 11. [4]
Ella Baker: Civil Rights Activist 1983 Etta Moten Barnett: Letters 1992 Kathleen Battle: 1984 Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Activist 1990 Derrick Bell: Distinguished Service 1984 Mary Bell: Communications First black woman to head a broadcasting company [10] 1982 Lerone Bennett, Jr. History 1983 Antoinette Bianchi: Technology