Ella Baker
Grassroots civil and human rights organizer, activist, and more (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986).
Speeches, essays, interviews, etc.
Oral History/Interview Ella Baker by Civil Rights Documentation Project (1968)
Address at the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally a speech by Ella Baker (1964)
Address at SNCC Conference a speech by Ella Baker (1963)
The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle a speech by Ella Baker (1969)
Bigger than a hambuger a speech by Ella Baker (1960)
Audio
Ella Baker and Howard Zinn (1968)
Talks + Discussions
Joy James: On Ella Baker, John Brown & Rebuilding Maroonage by Asia Art Tours
Ella Baker Day by Karson Institute
Strong People Don’t Need Strong Leaders by The Black Blogger
Ella Baker In Her Words by The Black Blogger
Born To Change The World by The Black Blogger
Ella Baker–Six Decades in the Making by Greensboro History Museum
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement [Book Review] by Noire Histoir
The Power of Protest by Dr. Patricia Parker
Tribute to Ella Baker by African Docs
Video
Fundi: The Ella Baker Story by Joanne Grant
Story of Ella Baker (1981)
Ella Baker: Bigger than a hamburger by SNCC Archive
Lift As You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell
Articles
Ella Baker’s Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby (2015)
On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle by Dan Berger (2019)
Ella Taught Me: Shattering the Myth of the Leaderless Movement by Barbara Ransby (2015)
The Height of Hypocrisy: Biden Quotes Civil Rights Leader Ella Baker by Speak Out Socialists (2020)
Saving Martin Luther King, Jr. and others from the capitalist “memory hole” by G.S. Griffin (2021)
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism Some Theoretical Insight by Charisse Burden-Stelly (2020)
Documents + downloads
Ella Baker and Models of Social Change by Charles Payne (2018)
Ella Baker Papers by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (1998)
Ella baker and the origins of “participatory democracy” by Black Studies Reader (2004)
Participatory Democracy: The Bridge From Civil Rights to Women’s Liberation by Julie Clements
Long View (1969)
Other resources
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