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.