Ella Baker
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Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was a leading African American civil rights and human rights activist beginning in the 1930s.
She was a behind-the-scenes activist whose career spanned over five decades. She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, including: W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr. She also mentored such then young civil rights stalwarts as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael and Bob Moses.
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