After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated,… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
[Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers - and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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