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.
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