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Ella Baker

By kafreeman

  • Ella Baker is born in Norfolk, Virginia

    Ella Baker is born in Norfolk, Virginia
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    Life of Ella Baker

  • Ella Baker moves to Littleton, North Carolina

    Ella Baker moves to Littleton, North Carolina
    When Ella was about 7 years old she moved to Littleton, North Carolina which was her mother's hometown.

  • Ella Baker Joins the NCYL

    Ella Baker Joins the NCYL
    The YNCL stands for the Young Negros Cooperative League. Ella baker joined this organization 3 years after graduating from Shaw University.
    The purpose behind the YNCL movement was to develop black economic power through careful and collective planning.

  • Begins her involvement in the NAACP

    Begins her involvement in the NAACP
    NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This association was formed in 1909 as an opportunity to advance justice for African Americans. Only a few of the members who started it are listed in the following: W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells

  • Ella Baker Organizes a meeting at Shaw University

    Ella Baker Organizes a meeting at Shaw University
    During the following weeks after the Greensboro sit-ins took place, Ella Baker had a vision for what the rest of the movement could look like. So she sought to help the new student activists because she viewed them as young, emerging resources and a big asset to this movement. She held a meeting to encourage and lead these new activists at Shaw University.

  • Ella Baker cofounds her first Organization; In Friendship

    Ella Baker cofounds her first Organization; In Friendship
    After having worked as a field secretary then director for almost 12 years in the NAACP, Ella Baker co-founded the organization, In Friendship. This organization worked to fight against Jim Crow Laws in the south while raising money.

  • Freedom Rides are Established

    Freedom Rides are Established
    SNCC members joined with activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to organize the 1961 Freedom Rides. Ella Baker took part in this largely.

  • Ella Bakers part in SNCC creating Freedom Summer

    Ella Bakers part in SNCC creating Freedom Summer
    There was a huge National Focus on Mississippi's racism to black registered voters.

  • Ella Baker's death

    Ella Baker's death
    Ella Baker died on December 13th, 1986 in New York at the age of 83. Her legacy continued to live on well after she had passed. Watch this video as a recap of her life and the work that she did for the Civil Rights movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukMgqCrNtRM