Ella Baker was part of the backbone of the civil rights movement. As a Black woman, she was sometimes excluded from woman’s suffrage organizations, but she did not let this deter her from making a difference. She was a charismatic public speaker, although she spent most of her career working behind the scenes, helping to organize the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and other civil rights groups.