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cartermagazine · 4 months
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“You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.” - Ella Jo Baker
Ella Jo Baker was born on December 13, 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia. Growing up in North Carolina, she developed a sense for social justice early on, due in part to her grandmother’s stories about life under slavery.
Ms. Baker played a key role in some of the most influential organizations of the time, including the NAACP, Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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blackinperiodfilms · 7 months
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RUSTIN | Official Teaser Trailer
The architect of 1963’s momentous March on Washington, Bayard Rustin was one of the greatest activists and organizers the world has ever known. He challenged authority, never apologized for who he was, what he believed, or who he desired. And he did not back down. He made history, and in turn, he was forgotten. Directed by DGA award and five-time Tony award winner George C. Wolfe and starring Emmy award winner Colman Domingo, Rustin shines a long overdue spotlight on the extraordinary man who, alongside giants like the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Ella Baker, dared to imagine a different world, and inspired a movement in a march toward freedom.
Produced by Academy award winner Bruce Cohen, Higher Ground's Tonia Davis and George C. Wolfe.
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BLACK WOMEN IN THE WARTIME STRUGGLE
Black women were on the frontlines of civil rights activism during the war years.
The grassroots organizing work of young leaders like Juanita Jackson, Ella Baker and Rosa Parks helped fuel a dramatic increase in NAACP membership and branch activism. Union organizers like Dollie Lowther Robinson and Maida Springer labored to ensure workers’ rights. Black women also engaged in direct-action protests against segregation like Pauli Murray’s 1940 arrest for sitting in the whites-only section of a bus in Virginia.
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Grassroots organizers Juanita Jackson, Ella Baker, and Rosa Parks helped the NAACP grow dramatically during the war. - https://www.mdhistory.org/resources/jackson-and-mitchell-family-portrait/ - https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/94504496/ - https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015647352/
More than half a million Black women left farm and domestic work for better-paying jobs in wartime shipyards and defense factories. But they had to struggle against employers who refused to hire Black women (or confined them to menial jobs) and white employees who resisted working alongside them.
Black women also overcame determined opposition to enter the armed services. Mary McLeod Bethune served as a special assistant in the War Department and worked with the National Council of Negro Women and Eleanor Roosevelt to open the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) to Black recruits. Eventually, 6,500 served. Bethune also lobbied successfully for officer appointments. Still, Black WACs served in segregated units and were often assigned low-skilled work. The Army also limited the number of Black nurses and restricted them to segregated hospitals. Conditions in the Navy were even worse. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox opposed the entry of Black women into the service’s women’s auxiliary (WAVES). They were only admitted after his death in 1944.
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Major Charity E. Adams inspects a Women’s Army Corps (WAC) battalion in England, February 15, 1945 (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/531249)
African American women also took on the then taboo subject of sexual violence. Sexual assaults on Black women by white men were a parallel offense to the lynchings of Black men. A 1944 Alabama rape case involving Recy Taylor sparked an NAACP investigation by Rosa Parks and widespread publicity. The Committee for Equal Justice, organized by Parks, led a national protest drive to bring the seven, armed white rapists to justice. Its allies included the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC), described by historian Erik McDuffie as “the shock troops for Black equality across the Jim Crow South during the war.” The SNYC conducted wartime campaigns for desegregation and voting and labor rights. Its leadership included women like Rose Mae Catchings and Sallye Bell Davis, mother of activist Angela Davis.
Please visit our current special exhibition BLACK AMERICANS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE ROOSEVELTS, 1932-1962: https://www.fdrlibrary.org/civil-rights-special-exhibit
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whenweallvote · 4 months
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Happy heavenly birthday to community organizer and civil rights activist Ella Baker (1903-1986)! 🤍
Baker is most known for co-founding the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, which served to fight racism, encourage Black youth to register to vote and get involved in their communities, and so much more.
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inthemarginalized · 2 days
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Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens. -Ella Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986)
She was a Black civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned over five decades. She was a critic of professionalized, charismatic leadership and a promoter of grassroots organizing and radical democracy.
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protoslacker · 1 year
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Like Ella Baker, we believe in these young people, that they have the energy, the courage, and the hope to devise means to change their condition. Although much concern about the education of African-American young people is voiced today, I am frequently asked why I have turned to teaching school and developing curriculum —teaching middle school and high school no less. There is a hint of criticism in the question, the suggestion that I am wasting my time, have abandoned efforts at attempting real, meaningful social change. After all, in the end, such work “merely” leads to youngsters finding a comfortable place in the system with a good job. Nothing “radical” about that, I am told. This is a failure to understand what actually is “radical,” so it might be useful to repeat what Ella Baker posits as necessary to the struggle of poor and oppressed people: “It means facing a system that does not lend itself to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.” The key word here is you. .  .  .
Robert P. Moses and Charles Cobb Jr. in Civil Rights Teaching. Radical Equations: The Algebra Project Drawing on the Past: The Roots of Our Movement
The Algebra Project is a national mathematics literacy effort aimed at helping low-income students and students of color ­­successfully achieve mathematical skills that are a prerequisite for a college preparatory sequence in high school and for full citizenship in today’s technological society.
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elwenyere · 7 months
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"The struggle is eternal. The tribe increases. Somebody else carries on."
--Ella Baker
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garadinervi · 2 years
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Mumia Abu-Jamal, Martin, Women & The Movement, January 20, 2014 (text here) (audio here) [Prison Radio. The Feminist Wire]
(image: George Ballis (photographer), Ella Baker, (detail), Black Delegates Challenge Mississippi Democrats, 1964. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
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readyforevolution · 1 month
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“We who believe in freedom cannot rest.”
Ella Baker
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profkew · 1 year
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Ella Baker speaking in Puerto Rico at a Solidarity Rally (1974)
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mimi-0007 · 2 years
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ELLA BAKER // ACTIVIST
“She was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organiser whose career spanned more than five decades. In NYC and the South, she worked alongside some of the most noted 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 and Bob Moses, as leaders in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.”
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Those who are well-heeled don't want to get un-well-heeled.
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lbdwow · 3 months
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Until the killing of black men, black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest.
—Ella Baker, civil rights activist 1964
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