Fundi The Story of Ella Baker (1981)

FUNDI THE STORY OF ELLA BAKER reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker a friend and advisor to Martin Luther King played in shaping the American civil rights movement The dynamic activist was affectionately known as the Fundi a Swahili word for a person who passes skills from one generation to another By looking at the 1960s from the perspective of Baker the godmother of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee FUNDI adds an essential understanding of the US civil rights movement