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When Ella was about 7 years old she moved to Littleton, North Carolina which was her mother's hometown. -
The YNCL stands for the Young Negros Cooperative League. Ella baker joined this organization 3 years after graduating from Shaw University.
The purpose behind the YNCL movement was to develop black economic power through careful and collective planning. -
NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This association was formed in 1909 as an opportunity to advance justice for African Americans. Only a few of the members who started it are listed in the following: W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells -
During the following weeks after the Greensboro sit-ins took place, Ella Baker had a vision for what the rest of the movement could look like. So she sought to help the new student activists because she viewed them as young, emerging resources and a big asset to this movement. She held a meeting to encourage and lead these new activists at Shaw University. -
After having worked as a field secretary then director for almost 12 years in the NAACP, Ella Baker co-founded the organization, In Friendship. This organization worked to fight against Jim Crow Laws in the south while raising money. -
SNCC members joined with activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to organize the 1961 Freedom Rides. Ella Baker took part in this largely. -
There was a huge National Focus on Mississippi's racism to black registered voters. -
Ella Baker died on December 13th, 1986 in New York at the age of 83. Her legacy continued to live on well after she had passed. Watch this video as a recap of her life and the work that she did for the Civil Rights movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukMgqCrNtRM