Primary Sources: People - African-Americans: Baker, Ella

"Civil rights activist and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) mentor Ella Josephine Baker outlines her family history, traces her growing radical tendencies, and explains the catalysts that pushed her into public activism. Baker opens the interview with her own family's history. "

"Ella Baker was an instrumental figure in the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the late 1950s and in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the early 1960s."

"A [PARTIAL] Transcript of a Recorded Interview with Miss Ella Baker, Staff-Member-Consultant with SCEF, Southern Conference Educational Fund. By John Britton, Interviewer, Washington, D.C. June 19, 1968
Original faded transcript retyped by Kathy Emery."

"Ella Baker Speaks! Part 1 of 3. Oral history interview with Eugene Walker. September, 1974. Ella Baker recounts her life in the struggle for Civil and Human Rights; people, events and ideas in this extensive discussion."