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Ella Josephine Baker

  • Insperation

    Ella's grandmother inspired Ella throughout her life becase of her pride and resilience when she was forced into slavary and forced to merry a man chosen by her owner.
  • Young Negroes Cooperative League

    In 1930 Ella joined the Young Negroes Cooperative League so african americans can recive power. She was in many organizations and said "People cannot be free until there is enough work in this land to give everybody a job."
  • NAACP

    Ella was involved in the organization NAACP. She was a secratery but then moved to derector of branches.
  • Civil Rights

    The Civil Rightss Movement began. African americans started speaking out of what should happen.
  • Moving to help

    Ella baker moved to Atlanta to help with Martin Luther King's organization Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
  • SNCC

    Ella went to Greensboro North Carolina to stand with a group of students who protested. She went to a meeting and after the meeting was over the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was born.
  • University of Greensboro

    Students in Greensboro University began protesting and gathering more people so they could make a change and inspire people to change things.
  • helping

    The SNCC helped create Freedom Summer so African Americans could vote.
  • Speech

    Ella Baker gave a speech called "Bigger Than A Hamburger" so many African Amercians can get the rights they need and for many people to get inspired and follow her ideas.
  • New York

    Ella baker returned to New York from Greensboro, North Carolina to help get human rights from there.
  • interview

    December 1966 Ella Baker had an interview with Emily Stoper and talked about what was the goal of the SNCC. Which was to change society.
  • Ella baker

    In 1986 Ella Baker died at New York but her leadership and legacy never left the african americans she helped. And it still goes on today of they people she helped and inspired.