| LC control no. | n 79029169 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Baker, Ella, 1903-1986 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000025182171 52524593 Q468884 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Monteagle (Tenn.) Atlanta (Ga.) Southern States |
| Located | Littleton (N.C.) Raleigh (N.C.) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1903-12-13 |
| Death date | 1986-12-13 |
| Place of birth | Norfolk (Va.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Civil rights Voter registration |
| Affiliation | Southern Conference Educational Fund National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Southern Christian Leadership Conference Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) Shaw University Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers Newspaper editors |
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| Found in | Cantarow, E. Moving the mountain, 1980 (a.e.) CIP galley (Ella Baker; civil rights organizer; in her seventies) info. from publisher (b. 1903) Washington Post, 12-23-1986 (Ella Baker, civil rights movement organizer, d. 12-13-1986) Grant, J. Ella Baker, 1998: CIP introd. (Ella Josephine Baker) NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for Her Interview, 1968 June 6 (Baker, Ella, 1903-1986; Staff member and consultant, Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). Former staff member National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)) African American women, 1993: pages 25-29 (Ella Baker, Ella Jo Baker; born December 13, 1903 in Norfolk, Virginia; moved with her family to Littleton, N.C. Studied sociology at Shaw University, graduating in 1927. Moved to New York City and joined the editorial staff of "American West Indian News" and "Negro National News". Organized workshops for civil rights activists at the Highlander Folk School. Died on her eighty-third birthday.) Find a grave (online), viewed September 30, 2020 (Ella Baker, died in New York City) New York times, Jan. 18, 2021: in an Op-Ed entitled, "The youthful movement that made Dr. King" on page A21 (As far back as the 1930s, Ella Baker in her 20s and 30s, worked as a community organizer in New York. By the mid-1940s, she was traveling across the South, recruiting new members to anti-racist groups and registering voters) |
| Associated language | eng |
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