King.įor two and a half years, in an era before the Internet, rolodexes or social media, Baker utilized her skills, experience and contacts to plan events, identify and establish protests and campaigns, and select and trained various individuals to lead them. In 1958, she moved to Atlanta to spearhead what had become the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the group primarily associated with Dr. 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 framed the issues and set the group’s agenda. King, a gifted speaker, was chosen to be the organization’s figurehead. There, she built coalitions with other groups, worked on a campaign to end school segregation, and even publicly confronted the mayor.īut after the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (touched off by Rosa Park’s refusal to yield her seat to a white man on December 1, 1955) many black leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., decided they wanted to establish a formal organization to build similar boycotts throughout the south.ĭr. She also was adept at recognizing talent and helped coax capable rank and file members into taking leadership roles among the participants at one of her workshops was an NAACP member from Montgomery, Alabama, named Rosa Parks.Īfter resigning from the national organization in 1946 (she had returned to Harlem to raise a niece), Baker stayed involved with its New York chapter, and in 1952 was elected its president, the first-ever woman in that role. Utilizing her iron will and a gift for listening, Baker helped local leaders carefully craft and implement targeted campaigns against lynching, for job training and for black teachers to get equal pay. Her parents shared their food with hungry neighbors her grandmother told how she endured a savage whipping rather than agree to marry a man chosen for her by a master. While those groups typically had male figureheads, it was Baker who, first as an NAACP field secretary and later as its director of branches, spent the 1940s traveling from small town to small town, convincing ordinary black citizens-who had been enslaved and terrorized for more than 200 years-to join together and peaceably insist that they were deserving of basic human rights.īorn in Norfolk, Virginia, Baker grew up in rural North Carolina, where she developed a deep sense of self-respect. Orders are not dispatched on weekends or Victorian Public Holidays.A granddaughter of slaves who graduated valedictorian from Raleigh’s Shaw University in 1927, Baker spent nearly half a century raising the political consciousness of Americans, and played a major role in three of the 20th century’s most influential civil rights groups: the National Association or the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced “snick”). We aim to dispatch all orders within 1-2 business days.ĭuring busy sale periods there may be a delay in processing your order due to an increase in order volumes. Eligible products are identifiable by the fast dispatch icon. Please Note: There may be a delay in dispatching your order if one or more products is not eligible for Fast Dispatch. Standard Orders- Your purchase will be dispatched in 1-2 business days. Fast DispatchĮxpress Orders – Your purchase will be dispatched the following business day.
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