Dec. 13, 1903 Ella Baker protests the all-white Mississippi delegation outside the Democratic National Convention in 1964. Credit: Photo by George Ballis, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Ella Baker, who played an integral role in the civil rights movement, was born in Norfolk, Virginia. Baker began her activism after graduating from Shaw University as class valedictorian in 1927. She dedicated herself to economic justice, saying, “People cannot be free until there is enough work in this land to give everybody a job.” In 1940, she became a field secretary for the NAACP, and three years later served as director of branches. Inspired by th
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