Ella Baker,
I also grew up in an extremely religious home, but I never had the courage to use my religion as a tool to really truly help those unable to help themselves, instead I was/am always just focusing on learning the different ways the religion pertains to myself and my experiences. You have shown me that religion is truly so much more than just a singular experience.
Religion gave you and the women around you so much autonomy, it is truly amazing. You took that privilege and ran with it and did amazing things for others as well as yourself. Although you were fighting to and beyond the very end, you brought justice and light to so many individuals. Through your work with the NAACP, SCLC, and the SNCC, you were powerful.
Your mother was amazing and was clearly a force to be reckoned with. Your relationship with her and your admiration of her is similar to that of me and my mother.
It was also so interesting that you kept your personal life and your business so separate. Nowadays there is so much dissonance in the way women are expected to treat their careers and the way that men are expected to treat their careers. While we are trying to figure out how to navigate this difficulty, decades before you had already perfected it.
You are an amazing, strong, personal yet professional, self-confident woman with a beautiful "ego" (but no in the traditional sense) ;)
Thank you,
Camille
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