Ella Baker, Ferguson, and 'Black Mothers' Sons'
In 1964, at the height of the civil rights movement, the great organizer Ella Baker said: "Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest."
Peter Dreier, ContributorE.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental Col...