Ellen Diggs

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]

Ellen Diggs
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

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^[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]

Works

• Black chronology from 4000 B.C. to the abolition of the slave trade, G.K. Hall, 1983, ISBN 9780816185436