To Document Ella Baker’s Life

To document Ella Bakers life is to recount the history of the obliging rights movement. Whenever there was a cause to fight for or a group to organize, this dedicated women was there. Ella was born 1903, she grew up and received her education in North Carolina. Upon and at unrivalled time, president of the New York branch Ella went southeast in the 1950s to help the civil rights movement as it was developing in Alabama.With 30 years of organizing experience under her belt, Ellas advice to Martin Luther King, Jr. nd other leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 was invaluable. She stayed South and helped Dr. King set up the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC). A hardly a(prenominal) years later she played an important part in helping to organize student sit in demonstrations that were occurring all over the South. This activity led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the most powerful student-activi st movements formed in U. S. history.She also helped to found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic society in 1964, which helped to give African Americans in Mississippi more political power. Ella continued to serve as the godmother and mentor of SNCC as it moved into other human rights issues. Her greatest asset was her ability to organize and mobilise people of all generations. Although her name was not publicized as much as other antheral leaders, the civil rights movement would not have been the same without her.Shortly before her death in 1986, a documentary titled Fundi The Story of Ella Baker was aired on public television. Fundi is the Swahili word for a someone who passes on skill to a younger generation. It is a fitting description of Ella Bakers legacy. graduating from Shaw University, she moved to New York metropolis just before the Depression of 1929. There she became active in various causes. She worked briefly with the Work Projects court (WPA) and then worked to e nd discrimination in organized labor through the NAACP.