I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the lack of public school facilities, I began there. I began boarding school at the high school… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have… — Ella Baker Copy Share
The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be… — Ella Baker Copy Share
After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a… — Ella Baker Copy Share
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for… — Ella Baker Copy Share
I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the… — Ella Baker Copy Share
His name was Michael R. Ross. I've never known what the "R" was for. He died, however, before I was 7. But he and… — Ella Baker Copy Share
I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the… — Ella Baker Copy Share
I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in… — Ella Baker Copy Share
I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know… — Ella Baker Copy Share
I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't… — Ella Baker Copy Share
