Ella Baker?

Question

Does anybody know anything about Ella J. Baker. I need like main important facts on her life. Please Help!!! I need this information.

Answer 1

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, the granddaughter of slaves, Ella Baker began her career as an activist early. As a student at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Baker 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 to be its first national director a year later.

Baker began her affiliation with the National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1940. After working as a field secretary. When a group of students in Greensboro, North Carolina, touched off a sit-in campaign, Baker left SCLC. Determined to assist the fledgling student movement, Baker took a job at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). She invited sit-in leaders to attend a conference in April 1960 at Shaw University.

Baker returned to New York in 1964 and fought for human rights until her death. An unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement, Baker inspired a range of political organizations including the Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, and feminist groups