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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.
Ella Baker (born December 13, 1903, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.—died December 13, 1986, New York, New York) was an American community organizer and political activist who brought her skills and principles to bear in the major civil rights organizations of the mid-20th century.
This is the life story of Ella Baker, a grassroots organizer and outspoken leader in the Black civil rights movement.
Jan 20, 2020 · Ella Josephine Baker, a black North Carolina native who migrated to New York in the 1920s, was a major part of that ground crew for over 50 years, and her legacy lives on in today’s social...
Baker, Ella Josephine. December 13, 1903 to December 13, 1986. Rejecting Martin Luther King’s charismatic leadership, Ella Baker advised student activists organizing the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to promote “group-centered leaders” rather than the “leader-centered” style she associated with King’s Southern ...
Apr 18, 2007 · Through her decades of work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and later with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Ella Baker emerged as one of the most important women in the civil rights movement.
Jan 16, 2017 · A granddaughter of slaves who graduated valedictorian from Raleigh’s Shaw University in 1927, Baker spent nearly half a century raising the political consciousness of Americans, and played...
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the Civil Rights Movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.
Ella Josephine Baker (Dec. 13, 1903 – Dec. 13, 1986) developed a sense for social justice early in her life. As a girl growing up in North Carolina, Baker listened to her grandmother tell stories about slave revolts. An enslaved woman, her grandmother had been whipped for refusing to marry a man chosen for her by the slave “owner.”
Feb 26, 2020 · Born in 1903, Baker was just a teenager when the 19th Amendment became law enabling women the right to vote. Her youth didn’t prevent Baker from attacking unfair policies and standing as a firm advocate of women suffrage.
