By the end of March, sit-ins had spread to 55 cities in 13 states ... But in the middle of all this was Ella Baker, a 57-year old veteran organizer. She had spent decades traveling throughout ...

The real objective of the sit-ins, explained racial justice activist Ella Baker, was “to rid America of the scourge of racial segregation and discrimination — not only at lunch counters ...

When Joe Biden accepted the nomination to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president on Thursday night, he began by quoting Ella Baker ... who led the sit-ins, and out of that meeting ...

Ella Baker, an official for the Southern Conference ... The tactic quickly spread. Soon the sit-ins were producing hundreds of arrests, drawing national attention, and sometimes sparking enraged ...

They weren't afraid, even though they had no way of knowing how the sit-ins would end ... were part of an NAACP youth group started by Ella Baker, known as the mother of SNCC.

Shaw alumna Ella Baker, a longtime civil rights activist ... students were bringing to the civil rights movement with the sit-ins at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro.

They weren't afraid, even though they had no way of knowing how the sit-ins would end ... were part of an NAACP youth group started by Ella Baker, known as the mother of SNCC.

After the Greensboro sit-ins, Baker founded The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), who became the “foremost advocates for human rights in the country,” according to the Ella ...

After the Greensboro sit-ins in 1960, student leaders gathered ... vision of caring for the least among us were there, too. Ella Baker’s niece, Carolyn Brockington, was among the honored guests.

As hundreds of thousands of Americans join protests to press for change in the Trump era, the history of this sit-in movement ... racial justice activist Ella Baker, was “to rid America of ...

Ella Baker worked with the NAACP starting in 1940 ... Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). When lunch-counter sit-ins began to become a powerful form of nonviolent protest, another civil ...