Excellent review of Baker's activist career. Focusing on her leadership style and influence in a variety of different organization. Text does tend to jump around a little bit chronologically speaking but that's really just a minor personal peeve thing rather than a detriment to the text. I find that the greatest value of this book is the Bakers desire to empower people to be their own leaders and how she lived that praxis while navigating the various political affiliations of a 5 decade activist career. ( )

Ella Baker! She was an amazing activist, and we could all learn so much from her...and by reading this book! It was an easy read, and packed full of information. A bit repetitive at points, but definitely worthy of about 4.5 stars. ( )