Baker pushed for change, working with the most prominent organizations of the time. There are people who worked tirelessly for the cause of civil rights, and their names are familiar to us all. Then, ...

Ella Baker, an official for the Southern Conference Educational Fund, speaks at the Jeannette Rankin news conference on January 3, 1968. (Jack Harris / AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, known as SNCC, was one of the most effective organizations during the modern Civil Rights Movement. The group was formed to ...

Ella Baker was an influential leader during the Civil Rights Movement. Many consider Baker to be the backbone of the movement. She worked alongside some of the most influential leaders of this time ...

Officials confirm they have found the body of a missing 25-year-old who went into the water and did not resurface at Lake Guntersville over the weekend.

Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. University of North Carolina Press, 2003, 544 pages, $34.95. ALTHOUGH ELLA Baker was a founding member some of ...

James Forman leads singing in the SNCC office on Raymond Street in Atlanta, (from left) Mike Sayer, MacArthur Cotton, Forman, Marion Barry, Lester McKinney, Mike Thelwell, Lawrence Guyot, Judy ...

There are people who worked tirelessly for the cause of civil rights, and their names are familiar to us all. Then, there was Ella Jo Baker, often referred to as the backbone of the civil rights ...

A Dyker Heights firehouse known as the “Castle on the Hill” is receiving a large boost from new federal funding aimed at strengthening the FDNY’s emergency readiness across the city. It's estimated ...