Ella Baker

Ella Josephine Baker was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades. In New York City and the South, she worked alongside some of the most noted civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr. She also mentored many emerging activists, such as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, and Bob Moses, as leaders in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

13 December 1903

Born on the same birth date (13 December 1903): Carlos Montoya

Born on the same birth day (13 December): Annie Dale Biddle Andrews • Archie Moore • Christopher Plummer • Danielle Collins • Emily Carr • Franz Aepinus • Frederick III of Sicily • George Shultz • Hans-Joachim Marseille • Jamie Foxx • Larry Doby • Lucy Brocadelli • Marina Bassols Ribera • Matti Kärki • Paul Bracq • Phil Hubbard • Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira • Pope Sixtus V • Ricky Nolasco • Santi Cazorla • Turgut Demirağ • Werner von Siemens

Born in the same month (December 1903): Ava Helen Pauling • C. F. Powell • Candido Portinari • Carlos Montoya • Cornell Woolrich • Danilo Blanuša • Earl Hines • Ernst Krenkel • Haldan Keffer Hartline • Hardie Albright • Harold Whitlock • Johannes Heesters • Joseph Cornell • Ray Noble • Tony Lazzeri • Una Merkel