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Ella Baker  

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  • Ella Josephine Baker, an African American civil rights and political activist, was influential in a broad range of 20th-century social justice movements for almost half a century. Baker is one of a group of significant, but not widely known, African American women who made crucial contributions to the civil rights movement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Baker, Ella (1903–1986)]

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