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 ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS)—The towering figures of the Civil Rights Movement were successful in large part because of the untold numbers of people who supported them in small ways. Under police ...

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.

Instead, there are groups such as Dream Defenders, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and Oakland’s Ella Baker Center for Human Rights that take actions at the local and state levels, and sometimes ...

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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.

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 ...