"Until the killing of black men, black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens." #ellabaker #BlackHistoryMonth #blackresistance
Every day this month UCBHSSP is honoring Black History by quoting a critical thinker, and providing a critical inquiry to use in your classroom.
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Black History Month Spotlight: Ella Baker (1903–1986), the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, believed real power comes from the people, not a single leader. Her work shaped the NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC. #BlackHistoryMonth #EllaBaker
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The civil rights movement wasn’t powered by lone heroes but by builders like Ella Baker—women whose labor was erased to preserve a myth. Liberation isn’t charisma. It’s infrastructure.
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Her belief in everyday people shaped SNCC, strengthened the Civil Rights Movement, and redefined what leadership could be.
Organizing doesn’t vanish. It grows. INerasable.
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📚 On This Day in Black History – December 13, 1903 📚
Today we honor the birth of Ella Josephine Baker (1903–1986), one of the most influential African American civil rights and human rights organizers in U.S. history.
#BlackHistory365 #EllaBaker #OnThisDay #CivilRightsMovement #SNCC #NAACP
#OTD #TDIH #December13, 1903: #BOTD #HBD/#December13, 1986: #DOTD: #RIP: #EllaBaker, #superimportant among #CivilRightsActivists, #HumanRightsActivists, #AfricanAmericans, #Activists #BlackPeople and all #PeopleOfGoodWill.
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“Parks was inspired by the possibilities Baker outlined and by her philosophy that many people could be leaders and organizers for change.”
—Jeanne Theoharis & Brandy Colbert
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True History!
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“Oppressed people, if they are to become free, must themselves be the makers of their own freedom. We must build strong communities so that when the police come, they do not find us alone and vulnerable, but standing together.”
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✨Wisdom Wednesday ✨
Ella Baker's words resonate powerfully: "Give light, and people will find the way." Her belief in community-driven change inspires us to unite against injustice, guided by shared truths. Let's honor her legacy by illuminating the path to a better tomorrow.
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"Give light and people will find the way." - Ella Baker.
📖 "Give light and people will find the way." - Ella Baker. (via brainyquote.com)
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100% … At the Encampment, peacecampherstory.blogspot.com, I honored the “persona” of #EllaBaker, my spiritual godmother.
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#OTD #ThisDayInHistory #April15, 1960 #EllaBaker leads a #ShawUniversity conference that results in #SNCC, the #StudentNonviolentCoordinatingCommittee.
#CivilRightsMovement #DirectAction #FreedomRides #MarchOnWashington #FreedomSummer #SelmaMarches
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📌 One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system…
~ #EllaBaker
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📌 In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.
~ #EllaBaker
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If you are an employee of a college or university in the US, at any level -- from service to administrative to faculty -- please read and consider signing. Thank you! #wewhobelieveinfreedomcannotrest #ellabaker #ellasong #bernicejohnsonreagon #education #research @michaelchwe.bsky.social
Kindness Champions you are light🥰
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Ella Baker’s words still ring true, until Black lives are valued equally, we cannot rest. The fight for justice continues. ✊🏾 #WeWhoBelieveInFreedom #EllaBaker #BHM
Ella Baker’s words still ring true, until Black lives are valued equally, we cannot rest. The fight for justice continues. ✊🏾 #WeWhoBelieveInFreedom #EllaBaker #BHM
“Strong people don’t need strong leaders.” – Ella Baker. She knew that real change starts in the community. When we come together, we all rise. Who’s in your circle that lifts you up?
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Ella Baker, the ‘Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.’
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The #dems should take some ideas for grassroots organizing from #EllaBaker aka The Mother of the #CivilRights Movement.
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Ella Baker was an American community organizer and political activist who is widely recognized as one of the key leaders of the American civil rights movement. Baker grew up in North Carolina, but moved to NY after college, where she found people suffering from poverty and hardship caused by the Great Depression. Here she was introduced to the radical political activism that became her life’s work. In the 1930s, Baker helped organize the Young Negroes Cooperative League, which would pool community resources and provide less-expensive goods and services to members. Baker went on to join the NAACP until the mid 1940s, when she started caring for her niece. She still managed to work with the New York branch to integrate local schools and improve the quality of education for Black children (people tend to forget schools were still segregated less than 80 years ago). Inspired by the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, Baker cofounded the organization "In Friendship" to raise money for the Civil Rights movement in the South. In 1957, she helped form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to coordinate reform efforts throughout the South. Baker left the SCLC in 1960 to help student leaders of college activist groups organize the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). With her guidance and encouragement, SNCC became one of the foremost advocates for human rights in the country. Baker acquired the nickname “Fundi,” a Swahili word meaning "one who teaches a craft to the next generation." Baker continued to be a respected and influential leader in the fight for human and civil rights until her death on her 83rd birthday.
It's #BlackHistoryMonth Day 21! Let's look at another Human Rights activist that you've probably never heard of: #EllaBaker
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