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ELLA BAKER AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT
BARBARA RANSBY


Ella Josephine Baker was a giant among civil rights activists. Spanning nearly half the twentieth century, her long and varied career enabled her to touch many lives and leave a unique imprint on the cultural, social, political and economical transitions of both African Americans and society as a whole, specifically during the tumultuous decade of the 1960s. In contrast to other leading activists of her day, Baker fervently believed that true leaders rose up from the poor masses to a position of power, and as such she often made special efforts to reach out to the poorest of working class people, as a “fundi”, a teacher and mentor, to bring them into the movement in some capacity. This was her signature style of leadership. Baker worked in some capacity of leadership for the three organizations at the forefront of civil rights activism in the 1960s: the National Association for the Advancement of......

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