A short documentary profile of Ella Baker, the organizer often called “the Godmother of the modern Civil Rights Movement.” It traces her pivotal, behind-the-scenes role with the NAACP, Dr. King, and the young activists of the 1960s, and centers her 1964 keynote at the founding convention of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Historians describe her distinctive faith in grassroots, bottom-up organizing over top-down — and largely male — leadership, and her fearless work in one of the most dangerous states in the South. A model of principled, people-powered leadership for young people to know.