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Ella Baker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 c...
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The Ella Baker Center For Human Rights ... Ella Baker/SNCC Conference 2000; "We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: Ella J. Baker ("Miss Baker") and the Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee". ... ... SNCC-People: Ella Baker; Ella Baker was born on December 13, 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia.
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The granddaughter of a slave who was beaten for refusing to marry a man her master chose for her, Ella Baker spent her life working behind the scenes to organize the Civil Rights Movement.
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Ella Baker was born on December 13, 1903 in Norfolk, Virginia. She began her career as an activist early. As a student at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, she challenged school policies that she found demeaning.
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