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Ella Bakers Early years Ella Baker was born to Georgianna and Blake Baker on December 13,1903 in Norfolk, Virginia. After graduating from high school, Ella left home for Shaw University in North Carolina. She earned her degree in1927, and moved to harlem where the lively black communinterset in social justice. She combating the depression through the consumer.

Baker studied at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. As a student she challenged school policies that she thought were unfair. She graduated in 1927 as class valedictorian and then moved to New York City. Baker began joining social activist organizations. In 1930, she joined the Young Negroes Cooperative League. The League's purpose was to develop black economic power through collective planning. She also involved herself with several women's organizations. Ella Baker was also known as the center for human rights.