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All Summed up

Ella and Freiden had many things in common just like many of the people in progressive movement during their time, but I think that one most important stood out to me.  Both women wanted their right to be themselves when people told them they couldn't. When others said "no" they said "yes". Though Ella worked behind the scences most of her life, she still did as much as Frieden, who everyone knew. Although Frieden fought for the rights of women and Ella the rights of colored people, both had one thing in common: They wanted freedom for their kind and their people. Because of their bravery and strength woman's rights and racial rights are differant and better then they had ever hoped.

NAACP

The NAACP is a Nationwide organization that has been around for almost one hundred years. It is the oldest civil rights organization in the US and has more than a half-million members. The organization helps promote freedom of voting for all colors and other racial freedoms. Many colored people just like Ella Baker joined the NAACP during the civil rights movement to help the freedom come.
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history

Honor: Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan certanly deserves to be discribed with the word honor. As a woman in the 1960s Friedan felt that women should have as much right as men. Born on February 4, 1921, she was the first of three children. Betty's father worked at a jewelry story and her mother was a stay at home mom. Before her mother was married, she was a journalist and through Betty's life encouraged her to pursue her dream of being a journalist. Betty graduated from Smith College in 1942. Like her mother she pursued her dream of being a journalist. When she married, she conintued writing. Through writing and research she published her book The Feminine Mystique which became world wide sensation! The book sparked the minds of many middle class women, because it discoraged the idea of "biology is destiny". Betty had many other occomplishments! More to come!! :)
Source: http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Friedan-Betty.html

Strength: Ella Baker

Strenght is just one word to describe Ella Baker. “In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become a part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed. It means facing a system that does not lend itself to your needs and devising means by which you can change that system. That is easier said than done.” Ella saw the way her people were treated and was distgusted with the system. Her insperation against it started with her Grandmother who as a slave, was forced to marry a man she did not want to marry, by her master. In 1927 she graduated from Shaw University and began to help comsumer ooperatives during the Depression. For many years after that she help join and start the Civil Rights Movement. In 1938 she joined the NAACP staff.
More to come!
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Ella_Baker.php

About Betty Friedan

Betty Friendan was an activist who tried to stop women's equality and sexism. In 1963 she published The Feminine Mystique which helped change American's attitudes. She co-founded the National Organization for Women in 1966 and the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971. During the 1940s and 1950s she was a left-wing journalist before focusing on women rights.

About Ella Baker

Ella Baker was a civil rights activist during the 20th century. She gradutated from Shaw University in North Carolina as a valedictorian in 1927. She was the organizer of the NAACP. She was very didicated to developing networks of activists. One of her biggest jobs was in 1957 when she helped Martin Luther King Jr. organize the Southern Christian Leardership Conferance (SCLC). She encouraged the black collage in the sit-in movement and left the SCLC to help spread the movement. In April of 1960 Baker helped create the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Baker did many things in her time to help the struggling blacks although people didn't hear of her often.