People have to be made to understand that they cannot look … - Ella Josephine Baker

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People have to be made to understand that they cannot look for salvation anywhere but to themselves.

Ella Josephine Baker

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About Ella Josephine Baker

Ella Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades, including a lot of work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr. She also mentored many emerging activists, such as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks, and Bob Moses (activist).

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Alternative Names: Ella Baker • Ella J. Baker

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Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens. (1964)

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People have to be made to understand that they cannot look for salvation anywhere but to themselves. - Ella Josephine Baker

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