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Black History Pride · Leadership from the community

Ella Baker

Illustrated portrait of Ella Baker

Ella Baker organized for civil rights and encouraged ordinary people to lead change in their own communities. She helped student activists establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960.

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