Ellen Diggs
{{short description|American anthropologist}}
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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.{{Cite news|url = https://newspaperarchive.com/us/maryland/frederick/frederick-news-post/1983/04-30/page-16?tag=ellen+irene+diggs+anthropology&rtserp=tags/ellen-irene-diggs?plo=anthropology|title = Dr. Diggs Authors Major Black History Chronology|date = 20 April 1983|work = Frederick News Post|access-date = 2 November 2015|via = Newspaper Archive}}
Biography
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{{Cite book|title=Notable Women Scientists|last=Proffitt|first=Pamela|publisher=Gale Group|year=1999|isbn=0787639001|location=Detroit|pages=[https://archive.org/details/notablewomenscie00pame/page/133 133]|url=https://archive.org/details/notablewomenscie00pame/page/133}}{{cite book|last1 = Gacs|first1 = Ute|last2 = McIntyre|first2 = Jerrie|title = Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies|year = 1988|publisher = University of Illinois Press|isbn = 978-0-252-06084-7|pages = 59–64}}
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. As Du Bois' research assistant, she aided in the research of five of his books.
Works
- Black chronology from 4000 B.C. to the abolition of the slave trade, G.K. Hall, 1983, {{ISBN|9780816185436}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last1=Gacs|first1=Ute |last2=McIntyre|first2=Jerrie|title=Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies|year=1988|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-06084-7}}
- {{cite book|last1=Harvey|first1=Joy|last2=Ogilvie|first2=Marilyn|author-link2=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author-link1=Joy Harvey|title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century|year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-92038-4|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00ogil_0}}
- {{cite book|last=Oakes|first=Elizabeth H. |title=Encyclopedia of World Scientists|year=2007|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-1882-6}}
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