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Ella Josphine Baker

“I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.”
- Ella Josphine Baker,
- in J. Todd Moye, Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement (2013)

Ella Josphine Baker, U.S. civil right/human rights activist

(1903 - 1986)