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ELLA BAKER 1903-1986

Civil rights leader. She organized the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, April 1960, at Shaw University. Her childhood home ¼ mi. E.

E-120Halifax County

Where it stands. US 1589/NC 903 (Main Street) at East End Avenue in Littleton

My basic sense of it has always been to get people to understand that in the long run they themselves are the only protection they have against violence or injustice.
Ella Josephine Baker1970 Interview in Black Women in White America: A Documentary History by Gerda LernerThe subject of this marker, in their own words. Carolina Quotes record
Ella Josephine Baker
Ella Josephine Baker. Public domain.

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