Ellen Diggs

Ellen Diggs
Ellen Diggs as a high school student, from a 1923 publication.
Ellen Diggs as a high school student, from a 1923 publication.
Born1906
Monmouth, Illinois
Died1998
Academic background
Alma materMonmouth College
University of Minnesota
Clark Atlanta University
InfluencesW. E. B. Du Bois
Academic work
Main interestsanthropologist

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]

  1. ^ "Dr. Diggs Authors Major Black History Chronology". Frederick News Post. 20 April 1983. Retrieved 2 November 2015 – via Newspaper Archive.