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	SNCC-People: Ella Baker
		Ella Baker was born on December 13, 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia.
		Baker developed a sense for social justice early in her life.
		Ella Baker died on December 13, 1986, in New York City.
	www.ibiblio.org /sncc/baker.html (320 words)

	King Encyclopedia
		Born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1903, Baker was raised by her parents, Georgianna and Blake Baker, on the same land her grandparents had worked as slaves.
		Baker's childhood was marked early on by an activist spirit.
		In 1941, Baker joined the staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as an assistant field secretary and later served as director of branches.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/baker_ella.htm (707 words)

	Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, by Barbara Ransby. Introduction. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ella Baker spent her entire adult life trying to "change that system." Somewhere along the way she recognized that her goal was not a single "end" but rather an ongoing "means," that is, a process.
		For Ella Baker, anchoring her activism within the fl freedom struggle was not simply a matter of identity but rather a part of a political analysis that recognized the historical significance of racism as the cornerstone of an unjust social and economic order in the United States extending back to slavery.
		Baker's message was that oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, had the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see that world for what it was and to move to transform it.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/ransby_ella.html (4941 words)

	Looking to the Light of Freedom
		Baker describes her years of organizing with the NAACP and what she tried to accomplish as follows: "My basic sense of it has always been to get people to understand that in the long run, they themselves are the only protection they have against violence and injustice.
		Baker said that she was never made official because she was neither a minister nor a man. The failure to recognize and respect women's leadership was a major weakness in the SCLC and in other formations of the Civil Rights movement.
		Ella Baker talked about and worked from a model of group leadership, of developing the capacities of each person to be a leader to participate in the shaping and making of decisions.
	www.zmag.org /bakeranarch.htm (6231 words)

	Ella Josephine Baker Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Baker considered herself a facilitator, rather than a leader and she believed in the strength and power of the common man to help themselves.
		Baker immediately shifted her attention to maximizing this new activism among African-American students, and took a job with the local YWCA in order to be nearby and involved.
		Baker taught people not to be ashamed of their race, made them believe in themselves, and understand the power of unity.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/ella-josephine-baker (1804 words)

	Ella Baker was not only powerful as a teacher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ella Baker was not only powerful as a teacher, mentor, and organizer but also as a leading feminist of her day.
		Baker made it her special purpose to encourage young girls and women who had joined the movement to remain an active part of the fight for civil rights.
		Although Baker never really considered herself a feminist or referred to herself as such, it was evident to those around her that she was an intelligent, powerful woman, who wasn’t the least bit intimidated by her position as a female leader in a movement controlled by men.
	www.tcnj.edu /~paciore2/paper04.htm (348 words)

	Ella Baker
		Ella Baker’s first major job within the civil rights movement was for the NAACP National Office as field secretary, and later as director of branches.
		Baker’s successful endeavors to raise local awareness and solicit funds for the NAACP as a field secretary lead to her promotion to national director of branches in 1943.
		Baker, perhaps the movement’s greatest grassroots organizer, was a woman of the people – her mantra: “the Negro must quit looking for a savior and work to save himself” (Ransby, 188).
	www.tcnj.edu /~paciore2/paper02.htm (997 words)

	Lisa Y. Sullivan, Ella Baker
		It was essential for Ella Baker that localized organizational structures offer women, poor people, and youth—the three forces that see-saw as the backbone of the movement—an important entry point into movement leadership circles.
		For Ella Baker, the single most important goal of community organizing was to ensure the leadership development of poor people, women, and youth to participate in and contribute to local political activism by initiating projects and influencing strategy.
		Ella Baker was, above all, the connecting social capital that brought young people together with their freedom- fighting elders, northerners with southerners, fundraising with community organizing, leadership training with ordinary people, and intellectuals with common folk.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/45a/438.html (1656 words)

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		Baker traveled for six months each year, usually beginning in February in Florida and working her way from Tampa to Jacksonville to Tallahassee.
		Baker reminded the more comfortable members of the community that they were not immune to abuses, that they must stand up for the rights of the most vulnerable members of the community to protect the rights of all.
		Baker would sit in silence for much of the time, more often than not wearing a cotton face mask to protect her against the cigarette smoke.
	www.evergreenreview.com /102/print/ella.txt (1289 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource
		Ella Josephine Baker was born December 13, 1903 in Norfolk, Virginia.
		She was the second of three children born to Blake Baker, a steamship waiter, and Georgianna (Ross) Baker, a schoolteacher and community leader.
		In 1923 Baker graduated from high school with dreams of becoming a medical missionary, but the cost of such an education was prohibitive.
	www.toptags.com /aama/bio/women/ebaker.htm (575 words)

	PS 225 Ella Baker
		Ella Baker is a small, progressive school founded on the model of Central Park East in East Harlem.
		Ella Baker is on the list of 209 schools that the chancellor exempted from the citywide uniform curriculum.
		In the Ella Baker corner of the Julia Richman Complex, the classrooms are large and well-equipped.
	www.insideschools.org /fs/school_profile.php?id=75 (735 words)

	Ella Baker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She was brought up from the start with a strong feeling towards equality between fls and whites, for she used to listen to her grandmother's tales about when she was a slave, how her owner had whipped her because she had refused to marry the man who he wanted her to marry.
		Ella attended Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and graduated as valedictorian in 1927 and then moved to New York City.
		Ella Baker died on her birthday, December 13, in 1986, at the age of 83 in New York City.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/baker.html (236 words)

	African American Registry: Ella Baker was a tireless worker for freedom
		Baker responded to the suffering she saw in Harlem during the Great Depression by joining a variety of political causes.
		Although Baker resigned from the NAACP staff in 1946, she stayed as a volunteer and, as the first woman to head the New York branch, led its fight to desegregate New York City public schools.
		Ella Baker invited sit-in leaders to attend a conference at Shaw University in April 1960.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/480/Ella_Baker_was_a_tireless_worker_for_freedom (409 words)

	In These Times \| A Woman of Influence
		Given that Baker’s political career spanned some of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th century, Ransby’s biography is in many ways a history of 20th-century progressive and radical left politics, and she writes about Baker with an eye on contemporary social struggles.
		Baker was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1903, a generation removed from slavery and partially insulated from the hardships of Jim Crow.
		Baker’s background and origins were not unlike that of other race leaders during the first half of the 20th century.
	www.inthesetimes.com /comments.php?id=356_0_4_0_C (1667 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Ella Baker \| PBS
		Baker continued her college education at Shaw, graduating as valedictorian in 1927.
		Baker married T.J. Roberts in the late 1930s and then joined the staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), first as a field secretary and later as national director of the NAACP's various branches.
		Baker continued to be a respected and influential leader in the fight for human and civil rights until her death on her 83rd birthday.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/ella_baker.html (412 words)

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		Baker was one of the powerhouses of the struggle dating back to the Harlem Renaissance in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
		Although Baker partnered with some of the icons of the fight for freedom and equality, she was distinguished by her vision, industry and attention to detail.
		Baker “was not church.” She did not belong to that exclusive circle of clergy who filled the ranks of the SCLC.
	www.urbanspectrum.net /march06_articles/EllaBaker.htm (1322 words)

	Ella Baker's Practice of Radical Democratic Humanism
		Ella Baker was known and revered by a generation of Southern civil rights organizers.
		But Baker taught them to learn from – and be transformed by – grassroots leaders and to respect their wisdom in a dynamic, group-centered manner.
		Baker encouraged her participants to see themselves – not their parents, teachers, ministers, or recognized race leaders – as the main catalysts for change.
	www.heartlandcafe.com /journal/jrnl_49/j49_ar01.htm (1126 words)

	Ella Baker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ella Baker was born on December 3,1903, in Norfolk, Virginia.
		Baker wanted to be medical missionary, but the cost of medical training was too expensive so she turned to sociology because it wasn't that expensive.
		She didn't take control of the meetings, but she helped the students to participate in the roles in the organizations so that they would be strong in the sit-in and the marches.
	www.unc.edu /~cmyers/ella_baker(AD).htm (313 words)

	The evolution of an activist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		ALTHOUGH ELLA Baker was a founding member some of the civil rights movement’s most prominent organizations, her contribution is little known.
		The contradictions of her family’s poverty and privilege instilled in Baker a sense of empathy for the poor and a passion for social justice.
		Baker herself felt that the most important organizing she did was with SNCC and the MFDP.
	www.socialistworker.org /2003-2/474/474_09_EllaBaker.shtml (839 words)

	Review of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, Vol. 8, No. 4
		Baker left little in the way of statements, manifestos, diaries, and the like; her radical vision of grass-roots democracy militated against even her own efforts to document her tireless work on behalf of social change.
		Baker's role, then, was largely invisible, and in fact she so successfully achieved her goals that she organized herself out of a series of jobs.
		Baker viewed herself as equal to the men who surrounded her, and considered herself responsible only to the people on whose behalf she worked.
	womhist.binghamton.edu /ransbyreview.htm (1185 words)

	ZNet \|Activism \| Ella Baker and the Process of Social Change
		Baker's historic contributions and the continuing relevance of her life's work until I read the excellent book by Barbara Ransby, "Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement." Ransby's biography should be required reading for all who want to transform U.S. society into a society based upon justice, equality and human rights.
		Ella Baker played a major role in building the NAACP in the '40s, particularly in the South, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the late '50s' and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the '60s.
		Baker was an intervention she made at a meeting in the late '70s of the Mass Party Organizing Committee.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=7613 (1125 words)

	AlterNet: Ella Baker: Rebel, Visionary, Civil Rights Leader
		Baker was content to use King's celebrity to attract young people to the meeting, but she was determined that they take away something more substantial.
		Baker was one of several keynote speakers at the Raleigh conference, and the only woman to address a plenary session.
		Baker encouraged her participants to see themselves -- not their parents, teachers, ministers, or recognized race leaders -- as the main catalysts for change.
	www.alternet.org /story/17570 (1250 words)

	Ella Baker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ella Baker was born on December 13,1903, in Norfolk,Virginia.
		As a girl growing up, Ella listened to her grandma tell stories about how she was a slave and had been beaten because of things that she would not do.
		The reason I chose Ella Baker is because she helped a lot in SNCC, and she also was in the Women's hall of fame.
	www.unc.edu /~cmyers/ella_baker.htm (290 words)

	Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Encounter - Find Articles
		One will wonder whether there are not many more underlying substantive details regarding the Ella Baker story and her contributions to and shaping of the civil and human rights movements-nationally and internationally-roughly from the 1940s through the 1970s.
		Baker's life was essentially public from the time she worked with the New York branch of the NAACP as a field worker, planting and nurturing local branches of that organization throughout the deep South.
		In this regard hers was truly a "radical democratic vision." Of course, Baker knew from her experience in civil rights organizations that the favored leadership model was that of the individual charismatic leader.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4044/is_200504/ai_n13642515 (946 words)

	Ella J. Baker Biography
		Baker also became involved with several women's organizations and, as an employee of the Works Progress Administration, offered literacy and consumer education to workers while educating herself about radical politics.
		Although Baker resigned from the NAACP staff in 1946, she stayed as a volunteer and, as the first woman to head the New York branch, led its fight to desegregate New York City public schools (see School Desegregation in the United States).
		Baker was a key player in the party's attempt to replace the all-white delegation from Mississippi at the 1964 Democratic Party convention.
	www.ncsu.edu /chass/mds/ellabio.html (535 words)

	Wiley::Ella Baker: Freedom Bound
		Ella Baker came out of slavery, and this fact lived with her.
		Born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1903, Baker grew up in a largely self-sufficient African American community where she was nurtured by a loving extended family and a mother who instilled in her a strong sense of responsibility.
		Ella Josephine Baker had found her calling, and the rest is riveting history.
	www.wiley.com /WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471020206,descCd-description.html?print=true (755 words)

	The Anniston Star - Honoring Ella Baker: Mentor for civil rights
		In the 1930s, while living in Harlem, Ella Baker was a leader of the cooperative movement and participated in demonstrations against lynching, colonialism and fascism.
		Baker was officially an adult adviser to SNCC but she was much more.
		Ella Baker never thought of herself as old, even as her hair grayed and her once-flawless brown skin relented to the pull of time and gravity.
	www.annistonstar.com /opinion/2003/as-insight-1207-0-3l06q5904.htm (706 words)

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