Life Story: Ella Baker - Women & the American Story
WEBThis is the life story of Ella Baker, a grassroots organizer and outspoken leader in the Black civil rights movement.
Ella Baker - Wikipedia
WEBElla 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. In New York City and the South, she worked alongside some of the most noted civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip ...
Interview with Ella Baker (Solidarity Day, 1968) - abolition notes
WEBTranscript of an interview with Ella Baker in Washington, D.C. during a Poor People’s campaign rally on June 19th, 1968. Preface. This transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview conducted by John H. Britton, staff associate, Civil Rights Documentation Project, with Miss Ella Baker in Washington, D.C., June 19, 1968.
Ella Baker: A Black Foremother of the Civil Rights Movement
WEBFeb 12, 2022 · Being poor, Black, and a woman in the south, she experienced a complex form of triple oppression, by racially discriminatory laws, lack of women’s rights, and attacks and biased aggression from individual people, …
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom - Wikipedia
WEBThe Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, or Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, was a 1957 demonstration in Washington, D.C., an early event in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It was the occasion for Martin Luther King Jr. …
Ella Baker | Biography, Civil Rights Movement, & Facts - Britannica
WEBSep 10, 2024 · Ella Baker 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. She notably helped form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, Remembering the Women Who Steered …
WEBApr 2, 2018 · Ella Baker. Ella Baker was a field secretary and branch director of the N.A.A.C.P. who moved to Atlanta in 1957 to help organize for the S.C.L.C., working to ensure that the Montgomery bus...
Ella Baker Freedom Day Rally Speech Text - Voices of Democracy
WEBella baker, “address at the hattiesburg freedom day rally” (21 january 1964) [1] This is rather unusual. Aaron Henry said that I’d had my fling with all the civil rights organizations.
Selma through a woman’s eyes – Doing History in Public
WEBMar 10, 2015 · Dianne Nash’s marginalization in Selma is symptomatic of the sidelining of women more generally in both historical memory and media representation of the Civil Rights Movement. Strong female leaders such as Ella Baker, who became the executive director of the SCLC in 1957, Prathia Hall, whose trade mark phrase of …
Baker, Ella, 1903-1986 - Civil Rights Digital Library - USG
WEBBaker, Ella, 1903-1986. African American community organizer and political activist born December 13, 1903 in Norfolk, Virginia and died December 13, 1986 in New York City. In the early 1930s, she helped organize the Young Negroes Cooperative League.