(KTAL/KMSS)—The towering figures of the Civil Rights Movement were successful ... That’s where Clark comes in. Ella Baker, an influential strategist and tactician, came to Shreveport in ...

Ella Baker, the mother of the civil rights movement, was a key strategist in empowering young activists and co-founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Thanks to Taylor Harris ...

Ella Baker (1903-1986 ... was elected president in 1952 and held office during the years when the civil rights movement achieved its first milestones. When President Eisenhower first heard ...

He was a sophomore when Shaw President William Strassner asked him to work with civil rights icon Ella Baker to set up a ... and work with leaders of the movement. What followed was the creation ...