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

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Born in the same month (December 1903): Antiochos Evangelatos • Ava Helen Pauling • Candido Portinari • Carlos Montoya • Cornell Woolrich • Danilo Blanuša • Earl Hines • Elisha Cook Jr. • Ernst Krenkel • Erskine Caldwell • George Davis Snell • Haldan Keffer Hartline • Hardie Albright • Harold Whitlock • Johannes Heesters • Joseph Cornell • Ray Noble • Tamanishiki San'emon • Tony Lazzeri • Una Merkel • Walter Rangeley • William Heynes