Ella Baker (1903 - 1986)
Baker was born in Norfolk Virginia and grew up in North Carolina. She studied at Shaw University in Raleigh, and graduated as valedictorian. She moved to NYC to join social activist organizations. In 1930, she joined the Young Negroes Cooperative League, whose purpose was to develop black economic power through collective planning. She began to work with the NAACP in 1940 as a field secretary and then served as a director of branches from 1943-6. In 1957, she moved to Atlanta to help organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1960, she left to assist the new student activists from North Carolina A&T University who refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. Under her mentorship, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was born. SNCC joined with the Congress of Racial Equality to organize the 1961 Freedom Rides. She was highly respected civil rights leader who mostly worked "behind the scenes" advising, supporting, and mentoring greats like WEB Dubois, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks. Baker's reputation as a leader and movement builder earned her the nickname "Fundi," Swahili for a person who teaches craft to the next generation.
The Drink:
Capri Cocktail:
1.5 oz gin
.5 oz limoncello
.25 oz peach schnapps
1 oz grapefruit juice
1 oz mango juice
dash of orgeat syrup
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 2
Priority for Conservation: 3
Comments:
From "Women of the Civil Rights Movement" hosted by BallBuster
Baker was born in Norfolk Virginia and grew up in North Carolina. She studied at Shaw University in Raleigh, and graduated as valedictorian. She moved to NYC to join social activist organizations. In 1930, she joined the Young Negroes Cooperative League, whose purpose was to develop black economic power through collective planning. She began to work with the NAACP in 1940 as a field secretary and then served as a director of branches from 1943-6. In 1957, she moved to Atlanta to help organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1960, she left to assist the new student activists from North Carolina A&T University who refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. Under her mentorship, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was born. SNCC joined with the Congress of Racial Equality to organize the 1961 Freedom Rides. She was highly respected civil rights leader who mostly worked "behind the scenes" advising, supporting, and mentoring greats like WEB Dubois, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks. Baker's reputation as a leader and movement builder earned her the nickname "Fundi," Swahili for a person who teaches craft to the next generation.
The Drink:
Capri Cocktail:
1.5 oz gin
.5 oz limoncello
.25 oz peach schnapps
1 oz grapefruit juice
1 oz mango juice
dash of orgeat syrup
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 2
Priority for Conservation: 3
Comments:
From "Women of the Civil Rights Movement" hosted by BallBuster
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