One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

"Bob" Roberts. Baker formed a network of people in the south who would go on to be important for the fight for civil rights. 136.

She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders of the 20th century including W. Du Bois Thurgood Marshall A. She also mentored such then-young civil rights stalwarts as Diane Nash Stokely Carmichael Rosa Parks and Bob Moses.