Rare picture of Ella Baker 🥲 - Born: Ella Josephine Baker was born on December 13, 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. - Died: December 13, 1986, New York, New York - Occupation: Community organizer and political activist - Education: Graduated as valedictorian from Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina - Career: Worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) - Co-founder: Co-founded the organization "In Friendship" in 1955 and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) - Known for: Her critiques of both racism in American culture and sexism in the civil rights movement - Nickname: "Fundi," a Swahili word meaning a person who teaches a craft to the next generation
I just love how you enlighten us with the key historical facts and information. This is especially critical in this current environment where facts and the truth is denied, erased and obfuscated. Well done. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this!! I keep one of my favorite Ella Baker quotes in my email signature..”give light and people will find the way”
Many thanks for this Charmaine - please keep sharing. Good education for all, as stories like these will never die. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
In the intergenerational development of the post-WWII Freedom Movement, Sister Ella Baker articulated, modeled, and initiated others into a “people-centered,” bottom-up organizing approach that had evolved as the heart and wisdom of what we now know as the Black Radical Tradition. This approach became synonymous with the transformative organizing work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Cedric Robinson helped immensely in his singular efforts to identify and clarify the activities and ideas marking this tradition through his scholarly, teaching, and activist efforts. And while Ella Baker neither invented the people-centered approach nor stood as its sole proponent in the United States; it was her people-centered efforts that breathed new energy and synergies into the “Civil Rights” stage of the Black Freedom Movement.
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Thanks for sharing. I love stories. I love history. History cannot be erased, even when some try. Why? There’s always someone to tell the story.
Thank you so much, so many of us don’t realize the impact so many of our people in the past have paved the way for us. God’s blessings always, keep on teaching us.
She's beautiful and dignified.
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1moKeep teaching us, my dear Sister.