Hidden Figures: Ella Baker #BlackHERstoryMonth 12/28 (Patreon)

Hidden Figures: Ella Baker #BlackHERstoryMonth 12/28

If you enjoy my work, please consider supporting! CashApp: $SerenSensei Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seren_sensei My Related Videos: Hidden Figures: Pauli Murray #BlackHERstoryMonth​ 12/28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=wNyPEmnDD5U&list=PL3YCr5ve8oqbrAwD9xO106hJIPjKnt1jS&index=149 Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was a Black American civil rights activist. She was a behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades and played a major role in three of the 20th century’s most influential civil rights groups: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She advocated widespread, local action as a means of social change, and her emphasis on a grassroots approach to the struggle for equal rights influenced the growth and success of the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century. She is also known as the ‘Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.’ Born in 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia, Ella was seven when her family returned to her mother's rural hometown, where they had worked the land as slaves for generations. As a child, Baker grew up listening to her grandmother tell stories about slavery, including being whipped. This resulted in Baker gaining a sense of social justice at an early age. In 1931, Baker became the national director of the Young Negroes Cooperative League (YNCL), which sought to develop black economic power through cooperative groups that would pool community resources. She immersed herself in the sociopolitical climate of 1930s Harlem and befriended future notable figures like a young John Henrik Clarke and Pauli Murray. In December 1940, Baker started working at the NAACP as an assistant field secretary. Baker traveled widely on it’s behalf in the South, recruiting members, raising money, and organizing local chapters. She was named director of branches in 1943, and became the NAACP's highest-ranking woman. In January 1957, Baker went to Atlanta to attend a conference aimed at developing a new organization to build on the success of the Montgomery bus boycott. The result of this conference was the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, of which she was a founding member. The SCLC aimed to coordinate reform efforts throughout the South, using nonviolent actions to bring about social progress and racial justice for southern Blacks. Their first project was the 1958 Crusade for Citizenship, a voter registration campaign to increase the number of registered Black American voters for the 1958 and 1960 elections. Baker worked closely with southern civil rights activists in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, developing strategy that included education and stressing the importance of the vote. Many of their tactics are still used today. As time went on, Baker became disillusioned with the SCLC. In 1960, Baker persuaded the SCLC to invite southern university students to the Southwide Youth Leadership Conference. At this meeting, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed. SNCC became the most active organization in the Mississippi Delta. Baker resigned from the SCLC in order to support SNCC, and became known as the Godmother of SNCC. With Baker's help, SNCC, along with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), coordinated the Freedom Rides of 1961. In 1967, Baker returned to New York City, where she continued her activism. She remained an activist until her death on December 13, 1986, her 83rd birthday. #HiddenFigures #EllenBaker ****************** Merchandise! MAKE SURE U GETTA SHIRT!! https://www.teepublic.com/user/sssseren https://www.shophouseof950.com/embroidery-tees/theblackamericans https://www.shophouseof950.com/embroidery-tees/dacs?rq=d.a.c.s Follow me on social media! Instagram: @sensei_aishitemasu Personal Tumblr: http://sensei-aishitemasu.tumblr.com Tumblr for my work: https://sssseren.tumblr.com GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/tc5wh7q ****************** Did you know I wrote a book? ☺️ 'So, About That... A Year of Contemporary Essays on Race and Pop Culture' Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/About-That-Contemporary-Essays-Culture-ebook/dp/B013V0CHK6 Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013V0CHK6 Digital download (e-book): https://gumroad.com/l/IkUa ****************** Links: On MLK Day, Honor the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Too: https://time.com/4633460/mlk-day-ella-baker/ Ella Baker: https://www.biography.com/activist/ella-baker Ella Baker (Nat'l Womens Hall of Fame): https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/ella-baker/ Baker, Ella Josephine: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/baker-ella-josephine Ella Baker, American activist: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ella-Baker