In August, when Joe Biden delivered his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, he began by acknowledging Ella Baker, a phenomenal political strategist and organizer.
"Ella Baker, a giant of the Civil Rights movement, left us with this wisdom: Give people light and they will find a way," Biden recalled. "Give people light. Those are words for our time."
Baker, often called a social architect of the Civil Rights movement, was a field secretary for the NAACP. King recruited her to help run and organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, then she helped form SNCC, which organized Freedom Rides to challenge segregated interstate transportation; and Freedom Summer, a campaign to register Southern Black people to vote. Baker helped organize the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party, which challenged the all-white Democratic Party delegation from Mississippi.
"The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use," Baker said, "and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence."
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