BLAK OURSTORY MONTH - Part VIII
the MAMA of 'em ALL, MAMA ELLA BAKER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Uus--gFrc Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned over five decades. She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including W. E. B. Du Bois , Thurgood Marshall , A. Philip Randolph , and Martin Luther King, Jr. She also mentored many emerging activists such as Diane Nash , Stokely Carmichael , Rosa Parks , and Bob Moses . She was a critic of professionalized , charismatic leadership and a promoter of grassroots organizing and radical democracy . [1] She has been called "One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement ."* That up above came from wikipedia & though I hate taking info from ...