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Ella Baker biography

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  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Norfolk, Virginia
  • PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
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Civil rights activist Ella Baker worked with the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.


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Ella Baker got into political activism in the 1930s, organizing the Young Negroes Cooperative League in New York City, then as national director of the NAACP. In 1957, she helped form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, whose first president was Martin Luther King, Jr. She also worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to support civil rights activism on college campuses.

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