Ellen Diggs | |
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![]() Ellen Diggs as a high school student, from a 1923 publication. | |
Born | 1906 Monmouth, Illinois |
Died | 1998 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Monmouth College University of Minnesota Clark Atlanta University |
Influences | W. E. B. Du Bois |
Academic work | |
Main interests | anthropologist |
Ellen Irene Diggs (1906–1998) was an American anthropologist. She was the writer of a major contribution to African American history, Black Chronology: From 4,000 B.C. to the Abolition of the Slave Trade. [1]
Diggs was born on April 13, 1906, in Monmouth, to parents Charles Henry and Alice Diggs and raised in a "supportive environment" that fostered her academic pursuits and other ambitions [2] [3]
Diggs pursued her undergraduate work at Monmouth College and the University of Minnesota. She received her master's degree from Atlanta University where she was a research assistant to W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. [1] As Du Bois' research assistant, she aided in the research of five of his books. [3]
Ellen Diggs | |
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![]() Ellen Diggs as a high school student, from a 1923 publication. | |
Born | 1906 Monmouth, Illinois |
Died | 1998 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Monmouth College University of Minnesota Clark Atlanta University |
Influences | W. E. B. Du Bois |
Academic work | |
Main interests | anthropologist |
Ellen Irene Diggs (1906–1998) was an American anthropologist. She was the writer of a major contribution to African American history, Black Chronology: From 4,000 B.C. to the Abolition of the Slave Trade. [1]
Diggs was born on April 13, 1906, in Monmouth, to parents Charles Henry and Alice Diggs and raised in a "supportive environment" that fostered her academic pursuits and other ambitions [2] [3]
Diggs pursued her undergraduate work at Monmouth College and the University of Minnesota. She received her master's degree from Atlanta University where she was a research assistant to W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. [1] As Du Bois' research assistant, she aided in the research of five of his books. [3]