In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
Today we’re celebrating:
Today we’re celebrating:
Ella Baker
Civil rights and human rights activist (1903 – 1986)
Civil rights and human rights activist (1903 – 1986)
- Organized students to participate in sit-ins across the South in 1960
- Formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- Helped organize voter registration projects with the SNCC, and served as director of NAACP branches, executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership, and was crucial in forming the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Believed in grassroots activism that stresses the importance of ordinary people rather than individual leaders
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