Ella Baker - 'The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement'

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After graduating from Shaw University, Ella Baker moved to New York City and began her career as a grassroots organizer. Joining the NAACP in 1940, the Virginia native assisted in developing some of the brightest minds in the Civil Rights Movement.
Baker charged people like Rosa Parks to stand up and speak out. Through her organizing efforts, she assisted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was helping to build the Civil Rights Movement. After a string of sit-ins in the 1960s, she joined a group of students who would go on to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Baker ignited the fight in a generation of young Americans who would go on to risk their own freedom for the advancement and equality of all black people.
Hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr.- with additional commentary from Farrah Griffin of Columbia University, Diane Nash, and Rep. John Lewis - we sing the highest praises to the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. This freedom fighter’s tireless commitment to liberty paved the way for the freedoms we have today.
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Executive Producers:
Robert F. Smith
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Dyllan McGee
Deon Taylor
Music By:
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@servanttou334 2 жыл бұрын

As someone who has studied the CRM, I greatly appreciate the effort that this video has made in educating new generations about this legendary woman. She is, without a doubt, the bedrock that helped the movement succeed. I will be using this video to educate middle schoolers within the next month, and I am so grateful to be able to share this with them. GO ELLA BAKER!!!

@JonROlsen 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, thank you, thank you! for placing and keeping the light shinning on this beautiful woman

@Dymplesmyl 4 жыл бұрын

She doesn't get enough recognition

@ProgAmerican 2 жыл бұрын

I had the honor of writing my thesis on her in college. I know I can't do the full justice of her character in just 37 pages, but I am happy that I had the chance to write about such an amazing woman. The fact that she is not elevated on a pedestal is a travesty.

@lemmy6465 2 жыл бұрын

Is your paper public ? I’m doing an essay comparing reconstruction & the civil rights movement and I want to write about her as she is basically the mother of the civil rights movement and I want to understand that movement better :)

@ProgAmerican 2 жыл бұрын

@@lemmy6465 Sadly, not at the moment (as far I as I know). I plan to edit a bit, but if you would like to, I can send you some sources to work with. I can send you a list of monographs that I used.

@gingerhitzke9185 2 жыл бұрын

I learned about her tonight when I saw a song by Big Freedia. I’m thrilled to learn about Ella Baker.

@donstewart8004 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for keeping this woman alive 🙏 ❤

@danac5621 4 жыл бұрын

RIP John Lewis

@furqaanali6523 2 жыл бұрын

I consider H.L.G. Jr. a clown 🤡 and joker 🃏. When it comes to our struggle.... However, Ella Baker my sister appeared to have more heart than most so-called "Black Christian Men Leaders" @ that time ⏲.... I'm glad she had the spirit to fight her enemies physically too.... if needed be..... All the civil rights Black Men Leaders during that time needed Ella Baker's go to war spirit and never, ever turn your cheek to your open oppressor..... I respect her for that very much 👏🏿... May Allah reward her for her heart and service to our people.....

@brialynmcmikle1082 3 жыл бұрын

i got a school project of this (yay)

@alecotkoala5203 3 жыл бұрын

OMG SAME

@aishahbacchus811 3 жыл бұрын

same (yay)

@valced314 3 жыл бұрын

girl send it i need help haahh

@no-tk8by 3 жыл бұрын

@@valced314 lmfao I have a project too and it’s a 6 page essay 😭

@valced314 3 жыл бұрын

@@no-tk8by omg i have to do a 10 slide presentation about her it’s so hard i’m fr stressed right now

@Danny-fs1hk Жыл бұрын

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@periodsistergang6292 Жыл бұрын

😍😍👏🏾👏🏾

@deweylasv 4 жыл бұрын

Ella Ella the mother of the White guilt movement

@ax386 4 жыл бұрын

Naw, "white' people have had a guilt complex for millenia.

@ax386 4 жыл бұрын

In more recent times however, the 400-500 years of enslavement and unsolved oppression still resonates in collective white unconcious. But this was far before Ella called it out. Perhaps when white people started trying to justify the destruction and enslavement of millions through anti-black idealogy now deeply baked within 'white' western culture. 'White' people enslaved and gained unfair advantage through the subjugation of African people and then tried to make it seem not as bad as the terrorism it was: guilty consciences bearing witness.

@babatundesalaam8499 2 жыл бұрын

BREAKING: Local white man offended by civil rights movement. More at 11