#ellabaker — Public Fediverse posts
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So there is a Martin Luther King Day but no Ella Baker Day. Remembering her is a reminder that history often celebrates voices and forgets the hands that made change possible. She didn’t just fight racism, she fought the patriarchy within the movement. Ella Baker believed leadership should come from the people not just one figurehead
#EllaBaker #NoKings #Feminism #Patriarchy #MLKDay #Decentralize #Fediverse
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"Other organizers included Ella Baker, Bob Moses, and David Dennis Sr. Only days before the 1964 convention, Dennis gave an impassioned eulogy at the funeral of James Chaney, the Freedom Summer volunteer who was killed along with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman by Ku Klux Klansmen in Philadelphia, #Mississippi.
"That violence was fresh when Hamer testified about being evicted after trying to register to vote in 1962."
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#KKK #EllaBaker #BobMoses #DavidDennis #JamesChaney #MichaelSchwerner