Baker, Ella, 1903-1986
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Ella Baker (1903-1986) was a behind-the-scene strategist in many of the American progressive movements of the 20th century. Baker's career as an activist, leader (a title she would never have used to identify herself) and grassroots community organizer spanned from the late 1920s to the time of her death in 1986. The projects, organizations and movements she worked for, directed, initiated, or supported included the consumer education movement via the conduit of the Young Negroes' Co-operative League (YNCL) during the Great Depression era of the 1930s; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the 1950's and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s; along with some fifty other entities.
From the description of Ella Baker papers, 1926-1986. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79408734
From the guide to the Ella Baker papers, 1926-1986, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.)
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Subjects:
- African Americans
- African Americans
- African American women civil rights workers
- Civil rights
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights workers
- Civil rights workers
- Voter registration
- African Americans
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights workers
Occupations:
- Activist
- Civil rights workers
- Newspaper editors
Places:
- Norfolk, VA, US
- NY, US
