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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Ella Baker"”.
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Educating for freedom: the Highlander Folk School in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954 to 1964
… to neighboring islands and continued to grow. Ella Baker, acting executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, brought the program to the attention of Martin Luther King, Jr. and in 1960, when the state of Tennessee closed Highlander Folk School, the SCLC adopted the …
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Healing centered organizing : what side are you on?
… different traditions including those from Miss Ella Baker, Paulo Freire, and Saul Alinsky. At times, this appears in the form of honoring Baker's legacy or aspiring to practice Freire's pedagogy, while Alinsky's impact is seen in inherited organizational structures. As young organizers implement …
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A Knock at Midnight: A Pedagogy of Womanist Spirituality
… Truth (1850/2005), Julia A. Foote ( 1879), Ella Baker (Ransby, 2003), Dorothy Height (2003), Katie Canon (1988), Renita Weems (1988/2005,1993, 1999, 2004, 2005), and Delores William (1993) have given me "gifts of power" (Walker, 1983) which encourage me to hope despite the impinging …
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The Ella Effect: An Activist's Journey Towards Mentoring Progressive Black Masculinities Into Motion
… full humanity. Modeled on the activist work of Ella Jo Baker, a community organizer, within the civil rights movement, I advocate principles and practices of grassroots community mentoring as a way to bring about social change. "The Ella Effect" refers to the practices, ideas, and life …
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Grassroots Impacts on the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Women Leaders’ Contributions to the Paradigm Shift in the Tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Its Affiliates
<p>This dissertation examines the historical factors that built grassroots movements during the civil rights era of the United States. These movements were produced by Christian women leaders, and they influenced a crucial transition in the leadership of the civil rights movement. Through their …