The Highway Historical Highway Advisory Committee of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources has approved a Historical Highway Marker honoring Ella Josephine Baker.

The dedication ceremony and unveiling of the marker will take place on Sunday at 2 p.m. at Roanoke Chapel Baptist Church on 1991 Roanoke Chapel Road.

The proposed location for the marker is in Littleton on Main Street about a quarter of a mile from East End Avenue, her childhood home.

Her contributions earned her the title of Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement.

A feature on oprah.com describes her as a leading African-American civil rights and human rights activist beginning in the 1930s.

She was a founder and acting director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

She fought against sexism within those prominent organizations as she led the charge for racial equality for more than five decades. 

She left home after attending Shaw University to become a community organizer and worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King Jr., though men in the movement often overshadowed her.

Baker also mentored young civil rights stalwarts Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks and Bob Moses.

Called "our Gandhi" by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, she was known as an inspiration to those who worked with her.