Today we are talking about a gal who is the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, whose behind-the-scenes work inspired students and adults to be activists and cause political and social change. Today we’re talking about the amazing life and legacy of your gal, Ella Baker
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Show Notes & Extras:
- Where Ella grew up
- Audio interview with Ella Baker from Documenting in the American South
- Moving to New York City before the Wall Street Crash of 1929
- Joining the Young Negroes Cooperative League
- Learning, teaching, and organizing communities around consumer economics
- Marrying TJ Roberts
- Working at NAACP
- Co-founding In Friendship
- Move to Atlanta in 1957 to organize SCLC with Martin Luther King, Jr
- Sit-ins
- Leaving SCLC for SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
- Freedom Rides
- Mentoring Rosa Parks, Stokely Carmichael, Julian Bond, Diane Nash, and Bob Moses.
- Video of Diana Nash talking about Ella as a mentor
- Video of Joe Lewis talking about Ella as a mentor and as a founding mother
- Third World Women’s Coordinating Committee
- Jane Addams connection! Check out Episode #7
- Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee
- Her death in 1986
- The opening of the Ella Baker Center
- What legacy we think Ella wanted to leave behind
- What we learned from Ella
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