- Ella died in her sleep on her 83rd birthday.
- Ella was given the nickname "Fundi", which is a Swahili word meaning a person who teaches a craft to the next generation.
- Inspired by the historic bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, Baker co-founded the organization In Friendship to raise money to fight against Jim Crow Laws in the deep South.
- Attended college at Shaw University where she graduated valedictorian in 1927.
- In 2009, Ella Baker was memorialized on a US postage stamp.
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