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Anthropologist
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Female
Place of birth
Monmouth, Illinois, U.S.A.
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AriesDeath
Age
91 years
Residence
Havana, Havana Province, Cuba
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Biography
Ellen Irene Diggs (1906–1998) was an American anthropologist. She was the author of a major contribution to African American history, Black Chronology: From 4,000 B.C. to the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
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
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
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