Ella Baker, a prominent civil and human rights
activist who said, “Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro
alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that
encompasses all mankind,” was born on this day in...
...and environmental health. The book has received praise from former Vice President Al Gore. Jones is a co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, which advocates for juvenile justice reform, youth violence prevention and green jobs....
...SCLC started with sixty-five affiliates throughout the South. The leader of the SCLC was Martin Luther King, Jr., but it was Ella Baker who opened and ran the group's office in Atlanta, and she used her connections throughout the South to lay the...
...is unique in key ways, we still have much to learn from our elders who fought injustice before us," she said. Dasgupta said Ella Baker, the tour's namesake, was the granddaughter of a slave women who would often tell her stories about the brutality faced...
Background
Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 - December 13, 1986) was a leading African American civil rights and human rights activist beginning in the 1930s. She was a behind-the-scenes activist whose career spanned over five decades. She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, including: W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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