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Purpose of Ella Baker Tour & Retreat
To commemorate and reinvigorate the influence of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) by enlisting students and young activists to organize events for a multicultural, intergenerational dialogue. At the 75th anniversary of Highlander Research and Education Center
(in 2007), a gathering of SNCC veterans and young activists embraced the idea of the Ella Baker-SNCC Tour and Retreat.


About the Tour

Young activists between the ages of 16 and 35 will speak on their organizing projects and their aims to participate in movements for social change.

Events will feature music and songs from the civil rights era and original creations by young activists and poets. Audience participants will sing "Ella’s Song" and "We Shall Overcome" at each event.


              Ella Baker Tour, East Tennessee State University, February 18, 2008.


Tour Participants

Civil Rights Movement Vets Campus Organizers
Sandra Adickes Ash-Lee Henderson (ETSU*)
Sam Anderson Jared Story (ETSU*)
Joan Browning
Nikki Jones (NCSU*)
Isaac Coleman
Wende Nichols (NCSU*)
Guy & Candie Carawan Tom Leventhal  (NCSU*)
Connie Curry
Harry Phillips (CPCC*)
Theresa El-Amin Nate Franco (Hunter College)
Bob Fullilove Nnenna Okeke (Rutgers University)
Ira Grupper Sara Mersha (Brown University)
Nellie Hester Emily Taylor (Brown University)
Matt Jones Ashley Dozier (Winthrop University)
Nana Nantambu Chimi Boyd (North Carolina Central University)
Chuck Neblett Renee Brown (North Carolina Central University)
Efia Nwangaza Mike Munger (Duke University)
Gwen Patton Juanita Scott (University of Louisville)
Al Pertilla Bryan Proffit (Hillside High School)
Constancia Dinky Romilly Ray Plaza (Virgina Tech)
Muriel Tillinghast Kia Caldwell (UNC Chapel Hill)
Annie Pearl Townsend-Avery
Bob Zellner

* ETSU = East Tennessee State University, NCSU = North Carolina State University, CPCC = Central Piedmont Community College (North Carolina)


About the Retreat

The May 20-27, 2008 retreat brought together youth and veteran organizers of the tour for a series of intergenerational sessions at a beach location in North Carolina. Invitations to attend the retreat were extended to other civil rights veterans, cultural organizers and young activists. Co-mentoring was encouraged as an acknowledgment that social justice activists of any age, gender, race and class have something to contribute. It was a time to write, read and rejuvenate.

A special effort was made to provide space for low-income youth and low-income civil rights vets.

Photos from the retreat can be found here.


Who was Ella Baker?
Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an NAACP organizer who is credited with mentoring students who formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. 






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