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Ella Baker

Field organizer who built the infrastructure of three major civil rights organizations — NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC — without ever seeking the spotlight.

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Raised in Littleton, North Carolina. Baker insisted that grassroots community leadership, not charismatic figures, was the engine of change, and her hands-off approach at SNCC shaped the militant student-led wave of the 1960s.

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Littleton, NC, USA

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