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Raised by Georgiana and Blake Baker, her parents.
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This timeline will follow the life of Ella Baker, an African American Civil Rights Activist, and her accomplishments and events that occurred throughout her time being alive.
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When she was 7 years old, Ella moved to Littleton, North Carolina, her mother's hometown.
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After graduating in 1927 as class valedictorian, she moved to New York City and began joining social activist organizations.
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The purpose of the YNCL was to develop black economic power through collective planning.
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She worked as a field secretary and then served as director of branches from 1943 until 1946.
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This organization was created to raise money to fight against Jim Crow Laws in the South.
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Ella moves to Atlanta to help organize Martin Luther King's new organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
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Following the Greensboro sit-ins, Ella wanted to assist the new student activists because she viewed young, emerging activists as a resource and an asset to the movement.
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Adopting the Gandhian theory of nonviolent direct action, SNCC members joined with activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to organize the 1961 Freedom Rides.
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Also known as the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which attempted to focus national attention on Mississippi’s racism to register black voters.
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Her legacy continued to live on even after her death on December 13, 1986, age 83.
