Shingzie Howard

{{Short description|American actress}}

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| name = Elcors "Shingzie" Howard

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| occupation = Actress, Teacher

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| known_for = Appearing in several Oscar Michaux films and working for the Colored Players Film Corporation

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Elcors "Shingzie" Howard was an actress in the U.S. She appeared in several Oscar Michaux films.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22578728/shingzie-howard-cindirella-story-added/|title=Shingzie Howard Cindirella story - added|newspaper=The New York Age |date=March 31, 1923|pages=6|via=newspapers.com}} She also worked for the Colored Players Film Corporation.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yRtmAQAAQBAJ&q=shingzie+howard&pg=PA349|title=Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking|first=Barbara Tepa|last=Lupack|date=November 8, 2013|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253010728|via=Google Books}}

After she married she became known as Shingzie Howard McClane.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7ZYsnTPIhwC&q=shingzie+howard&pg=PA169|title=Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television|first=Bob|last=McCann|date=December 21, 2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786458042|via=Google Books}} She retired from filmmaking and became a teacher. She appeared in the documentary Midnight Ramble episode of American Experience about early African American films in 1994.