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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, Septima Clark and countless other unsung heroes and heroines, Baker was among the prime architects of… return to article

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