James Clark Baker [SEP] country of citizenship
James Clark Baker
James Clark Baker (13 November 1866 – 1 February 1939), also known as James Clark, was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Otago from 1890 to 1907. In 1902 he scored Otago's first century in first-class cricket.
Cricket career.
After two unsuccessful matches for Otago in 1889-90, Baker played a leading part in Otago's victory over Canterbury in 1890-91. In a match in which only 443 runs were scored, Otago needed
, becoming the SCLC's director of education and teaching. Clark was the first woman to gain a position on the SCLC board. Andrew Young, who had joined Highlander the previous year to work with the Citizenship Schools, also joined the SCLC staff. The SCLC staff of citizenship schools were mainly women, as a result of the daily experience gained by becoming a teacher. Clark would struggle against sexism during her time on the SCLC, as had Ella Baker, with the bulk of sexism emanating from Martin Luther King, Jr.