Ella Baker helped organize Martin Luther King's new organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and ran its Atlanta office as Executive Director.

Baker's relationship with King was tense, because, although she had much experience and wisdom from years of organizing, King struggled to let a woman take the lead in any meaningful way, scholars ...

Joe Biden called Ella Baker a giant of the civil rights movement, but her work was often in the shadows, outside the spotlight. She was a field secretary and director of branches for the NAACP. In ...

Ella Jo Baker fought tirelessly — and quietly — for civil rights, working with the most prominent organizations of the tumultuous time.

Biden called Ella Baker a giant of the civil rights movement. Her life was extraordinary. Baker believed in the power of grassroots activism, and she spent her life fighting injustice.

Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. University of North Carolina Press, 2003, 544 pages, $34.95. ALTHOUGH ELLA Baker was a founding member some ...

The world needs to remember Ella Baker. December 13 marks both her birth and transition date. She was born December 13, 1903, and she went to be with the ancestors on December 13, 1986, at the age ...

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 ...