Then, there was Ella Jo Baker, often referred to as the backbone of the civil rights movement. A quiet, unassuming woman, Baker was at the center of the civil rights struggle with the movement’s ...

Her fighting spirit lives on in today’s social movements. By Barbara Ransby Dr. Ransby, a historian, is the author of “Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement.” When the Rev. Dr. Martin ...

That name is Ella Baker — and, in West’s words, she was “one of the greatest.” So what did she do? Ella Baker worked with the NAACP starting in 1940, and was motivated by the Montgomery ...

According to several historians, including biographer Barbara Ransby, writing in her book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, it was Baker who principally ...

Harriet Jacobs, Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer are three unsung heroes that helped inspire generations. Jacobs was born a slave in 1813. While there have been narratives written before by slaves ...