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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Ransby, Barbara (2003). "The Preacher and the Organizer: The Politics of Leadership in the Early Civil Rights Movement". Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 170–208. ISBN 9780807856161
Richardson also looked up to civil rights activists Fannie Lou Hamer, a grassroots organizer in Mississippi, and Ella Baker, who served in roles with the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership ...
It includes American civil rights activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "American women civil rights activists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 428 total.
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.