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Ella Josephine Baker ( - )

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Born in Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Ancestors

Daughter of Blake Baker and Georgia Anna (Ross) Baker

Sister of Blake Curtis Baker

[spouse(s) unknown]

Died at age 83in New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

Ella Baker, "one of the most important American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement,"[1]achieved her goals through "empowering the most common person, whether a sharecropper, teenager, or illiterate vagrant, with skills to make demands on the political establishment."[2]She shone a light on the darkness of racism, she worked her entire life to make the invisible visible, yet she remains to this day the Invisible Woman.

Born in in Norfolk, Virginia,

Ella Baker is Notable.

her parents were Georgiana "Anna" Rossand Blake Baker.[3]Her grandparen