The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights opened in 1996 and calls Baker “an unsung hero of racial and economic justice, the civil rights movement.” That she was. And her legacy remains strong today.

Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986) worked across five decades as an African-American civil rights and human rights activist in the United States.

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or minimized in favor of male figures. From organizing boycotts to ...

Ella Baker is credited with organizing and guiding countless leaders through her work at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and as a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Ella Baker was involved in three of the most influential groups of the Civil Rights Movement: the NAACP, the SNCC, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, known as SNCC, was one of the most effective organizations during the modern Civil Rights Movement. The group was formed to include students in the si… ...

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Baker pushed for change, working with the most prominent organizations of the time. There are people who worked tirelessly for […] The post Ella Baker was the quiet backbone of the civil rights ...

Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986) worked across five decades as an African-American civil rights and human rights activist in the United States. Baker was inspired at least partly by the accounts ...