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Ella Baker – Racial Justice Activist 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧

Ella Baker was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 on this date in 1903. She was a Black social and racial justice activist.

She was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 in Norfolk, VA, the granddaughter of slaves, and began her career as an activist at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., where she challenged school policies that she found demeaning. After graduating from Shaw as class valedictorian in 1927, she moved to New York City. Baker responded to the suffering she saw in Harlem during the Great Depression by joining a variety of political causes. In 1930, she joined the Young Negroes Cooperative League and was elected its first national director a year later.

Baker also became involved with several women’s organizations offering literacy and consumer education to workers while educating herself about radical politics. In 1940, Baker began her affiliation with the NAACP. After working as a field secretary, Baker served as director of branches from 1943 to 1946. She expanded the NAACP throughout the South, helping create the grass-roots network that provided a base for the 20th-century American Civil Rights Movement. At the same time, Baker fought to make the NAACP more democratic by shifting the organization’s emphasis away from legal battles and toward community-based activism.

Although Baker resigned from the NAACP staff in 1946, she stayed as a volunteer and led its fight to desegregate New York City public schools as the first woman to head the New York branch. In 1956, Ella Baker invited sit-in leaders to a conference at Shaw University in April 1960. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 the following October of that conference. Baker moved to Atlanta to organize the new SCLC and to run the Crusade for Citizenship, a voter registration campaign. Baker stayed at SCLC for two years, but she never accepted its policy of favoring strong central leadership over local, grass-roots politics.

Baker returned to New York in 1964 and fought for human rights until her death. Called an “unsung hero” of the Civil Rights Movement, Baker has inspired a range of political organizations, including the Black Panther Party, Students for a Democratic Society, and feminist groups. Ella Baker, who founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), died on December 13, 1986.

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