According to the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ... spending three years as a field secretary for the NAACP. She traveled through the deep South, spreading the message of civil rights for ...

Ella Baker, an official for the Southern Conference ... when she served for much of the 1940s as a field secretary for the NAACP. She was eventually promoted to national director of branches.

Baker became the NAACP's secretary, recruiting new members to join the organization. Soon after, she became NAACP's National Director of Branches in 1943. Ella Baker helped organize Martin Luther ...

“Ella Baker, a giant of the civil rights movement ... By the late 1930s, Baker was working with the NAACP, and in 1940 she became a field secretary for the organization, traveling, recruiting ...

“Ella Baker, a giant of the civil rights movement ... She was a field secretary and director of branches for the NAACP. In 1957, she moved to Atlanta to organize for the Southern Christian ...

As a child, Ella was part of a supportive and tightly ... of the exploitation of black domestic servants for the NAACP journal Crisis. Baker started working for the NAACP in 1938 and three years ...

Had she been a man, Ella Baker’s name might be as recognizable ... to the Norfolk Journal and Guide. Around 1940, Baker joined the NAACP as an assistant field secretary, preferring to find ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the ... Explore their impact on the Civil Rights Movement below. As the ...

While those groups typically had male figureheads, it was Baker who, first as an NAACP field secretary and ... writing in her book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic ...

Ella Baker was one of the most important African-American leaders of the 20th century, and her work as a political organizer, leader and teacher impacted such organizations as the NAACP ...

“We are blessed to have had strong women leaders from our past, such as Mary Church Terrell, Ella Baker and Rosa Parks. Some people may associate the great works of the NAACP with the ...