Complaining about distorted media coverage of the New York school struggle in a letter to her friend Ruth Moore, Baker wrote: “The headlines especially are designed to give the impression that the only thing with which we are concerned is integration rather than the fact that integration is desirable because where there is separation, even in New York, the schools are too often inadequate.”17 Second, Baker helped to forge an important biracial alliance between the African American and Puerto Rican communities.
