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Ella Josephine Baker was born.
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After moving to New York , Baker joined the Young Negroes Cooperative League ( YNCL ) in the late 1920’s
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Baker Graduated from Shaw University as class valedictorian.
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Around 1940, Baker became a field secretary for the NAACP.
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In 1943 Baker became the NAACP’s national director of branches.
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In 1952 , Ella Baker became director of the New York Chapter of the NAACP.
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In 1957 , Baker helped launch the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Baker organized the event that led to the creation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in 1960.
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In 1964, she helped form the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party .
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Ella Josephine Baker died on her 83rd Birthday.
