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

[@JonROlsen]

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

[@servanttou334]

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!!!

[@Dymplesmyl]

She doesn't get enough recognition

[@hellacooook]

she had government moles

[@ProgAmerican]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@donstewart8004]

Thank you for keeping this woman alive 🙏 ❤

[@x34plays34]

Gonna cite this as extra reading on my coursework, thank you :)

[@eletonjohns8361]

A Shaw University graduate, Where She Started SNNC, and She has a Elementary School named after her in The Nanny District of NYC Eastside.

[@danac5621]

RIP John Lewis

[@brialynmcmikle1082]

i got a school project of this (yay)

[@alecotkoala5203]

OMG SAME

[@aishahbacchus811]

same (yay)

[@valced314]

girl send it i need help haahh

[@no-tk8by]

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

[@valced314]

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

[@furqaanali6523]

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.....

[@Danny-fs1hk]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@periodsistergang6292]

😍😍👏🏾👏🏾

[@deweylasv]

Ella Ella the mother of the White guilt movement

[@ax386]

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

[@ax386]

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]

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