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4 days ago · This is just the beginning. And in the words of the inimitable Ella Baker, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.
5 days ago · We are activists, embodying the conviction of human rights advocate Ella Baker, Black nationalist Malcolm X, and feminist Alice Paul; we come together to fill the streets and take up the space...
2 days ago · We shared our complicated and urgent relationship to the light we need to shine at this time and to close we stepped into the field of freedom Ella Baker activated with her speech at the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Convention that hailed all of us past, present and future who “believe in freedom.” Here is the poem we created together.
3 days ago · In 2023, McDonald portrayed civil rights activist Ella Baker in the Netflix biographical drama Rustin. That same year she acted in the comedy Down Low, the Civil Rights biopic and the Ava DuVernay directed drama Origin.
2 days ago · Booker T. Washington and others sought to craft a public image of the Negro for whites and for blacks.
3 days ago · When the Southern civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1940s and 1950s, credit went both to the Legal Defense Fund attorneys and to the massive network of local branches that Ella Baker and other organizers had spread across the region.
3 days ago · The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, [1] [2] was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. [3] The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
