Ella Josephine Baker, a black North Carolina native who ... S.N.C.C. went on to lead the “Freedom Rides,” in which participants risked life and limb to desegregate interstate transportation ...

As the protests spread from Ferguson to cities around the country, today’s young activists can learn much from Baker’s ideas ... including freedom rides and voter registration drives, to ...

Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986 ... the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Freedom Rides and the Freedom Summer. She worked largely behind the scenes, and strove to build grassroots ...

“Ella Baker, a giant of the civil rights movement ... which helped coordinate galvanizing incidents such as the Freedom Rides on buses throughout the South and Black voter registration drives.

When Joe Biden accepted the nomination to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president on Thursday night, he began by quoting Ella Baker ... organize the Freedom Rides in 1961, in which ...

Ella Baker, an official for the Southern Conference ... contributed to confrontational mobilizations such as the 1961 Freedom Rides—in which interracial groups boarded buses to challenge ...

Had she been a man, Ella Baker’s name might be as recognizable ... SNCC became a powerful force in staging protests, conducting “Freedom Rides” to test desegregation policies on interstate ...

Ella Baker, a prominent civil rights activist ... as well as the historic 1961 Freedom Rides, in which activists rode interstate buses to protest segregationist policies in the South.

Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986 ... the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Freedom Rides and the Freedom Summer. She worked largely behind the scenes, and strove to build grassroots ...