Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer
Ella Baker was a civil rights leader. She was the 1st woman elected president of the NY NAACP. Following the Greensboro sit-ins, she helped persuade the SCLC to bring student activists together for the conference where SNCC was formed. She was an activist throughout her life. https://t.co/olPNwcUu7I — PolitiTweet.org