A Woman of Influence

By Cedric Kwesi Johnson

For many within the American civil rights movement, Ella Josephine Baker was a consummate organizer, a politically sophisticated intellectual, a patient teacher, faithful comrade, and in many respects a miracle worker. Like Fannie Lou Hamer, Myles Horton, Bayard Rustin, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Esau Jenkins, [RETURN TO ARTICLE]