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“I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.”
Betty Hill“[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.”
Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present“How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker”
Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present