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Elijah Adekugbe
1996–
Elijah Adekugbe (born 26 April 1996) is an English professional footballer who last played for Australian NPL Victoria club Preston Lions FC.
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Elijah Cook
Biography
Elijah Cook (born c. 1835 –August 20, 1916) was an American community leader, organizer of schools, and legislator from Montgomery, Alabama. A former slave, he helped establish Montgomery's first school for African Americans in 1865 after the American…
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Elijah Dixon-Bonner
2001–
Elijah Malik Dixon-Bonner (born 1 January 2001) is an English professional footballer who played most recently as a midfielder for EFL Championship club Queens Park Rangers.
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Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent
1798–1883
Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent (1798 – 29 November 1883) was a Saint Dominican Creole, businesswoman and international migrant. Born in 1798 in Saint-Domingue to an affranchie mother and a French father, she was illegitimate, although her father did…
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Elisha N'Dow
1996–
Elisha N'Dow (born 13 October 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Women's Super League club Charlton Athletic. She has represented Aston Villa on more than 150 occasions and served as their captain.
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Sports
Elisha Sulola
2001–
Elisha Mary Sulola (born 7 June 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Serie A Women club Napoli. Sulola also holds Nigerian citizenship through descent. She has previously played for Tottenham Hotspur, Charlton…
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Eliza Ann Gardner
1831–1922
Eliza Ann Gardner (May 28, 1831 – January 4, 1922) was an African-American abolitionist, religious leader and women's movement leader from Boston, Massachusetts. She founded the missionary society of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ), was…
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Elizabeth Calvet
1960–2001
Elizabeth Calvet (1960–2001) was a Brazilian human rights activist. Primarily known for her work during the earliest stages of the lesbian rights movement in Brazil, she also had a long career advocating for the rights of marginalised communities,…
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Architecture
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
1867–1951
Elizabeth Carter Brooks (1867–1951), was an American educator, social activist and architect. She was passionate about helping other African Americans achieve personal success and was one of the first to recognize the importance of preserving historical…
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Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
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Elizabeth Clark-Lewis is an American historian. She is professor of history and director of the public history program at Howard University. She has written about slavery, emancipation and domestic labor among other topics, especially as regards the…
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Civil Rights & Community
Elizabeth Cromwell
1944–2019
Elizabeth Ann Cromwell (née Gallion; September 4, 1944 – October 2, 2019) was an African Nova Scotian and Black Loyalist. She dedicated her career to the celebration of African Nova Scotian History and recognising the experiences of the Birchtown black…
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Elizabeth Harden Gilmore
1909–1986
Elizabeth Harden Gilmore (1909–1986) was a business leader and civil rights advocate. She was the first woman to be licensed as an assistant funeral director in Kanawha County, West Virginia on October 28, 1938, and as a funeral director on November 12,…
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Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
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Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a poet and academic who is known for her publications in nature writing. Following her PhD studies in contemporary poetics, which led to the publication of a monograph titled A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry…
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Elizabeth Keckley
1818–1907
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February 1818 – May 1907) was an American seamstress, activist, and writer who lived in Washington, D.C. She was the personal dressmaker (modiste) and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. An African American, Keckley also started the…
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Elizabeth Lindsay Davis
1855–1944
Elizabeth Lindsay Davis (1855-1944) was an African-American teacher, writer, and activist. She was responsible for forming the Phyllis Wheatley Women's Club in Chicago, Illinois in 1900.
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Politics & Public Life
Elizabeth M. Coggs
1956–
Elizabeth Monette "Beth" Coggs (born December 4, 1956) is an American community organizer and Democratic politician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 10th Assembly district from 2011 to 2013.…
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Elizabeth Piper Ensley
1847–1919
Elizabeth Piper Ensley (January 19, 1847 – February 23, 1919), was an educator and an African-American suffragist. Born in Massachusetts, Ensley was a teacher on the eastern coast of the country. She moved to Colorado where she achieved prominence as a…
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Elizabeth Riley
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Elizabeth Cook Riley (née Cook; c. 1792 – 1855) was an African-American Bostonian abolitionist who aided in the escape of fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins. She was a member of the committee which raised the first funds towards William Lloyd Garrison's The…
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Elizabeth Shearer White
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Elizabeth 'Liz' Shearer White (died 1993) was an American independent film producer and founder of the Shearer Summer Theatre in Martha's Vineyard. She is known for her stage production of Shakespeare's Othello with an all-black cast, which she eventually…
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Elizabeth Virgil
1903–1991
Elizabeth Ann Virgil (April 24, 1903 – June 20, 1991) was an American educator and the first African American to graduate from the University of New Hampshire, receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in home economics in 1926. She taught at Black schools…
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Ella Baker
1903–1986
Baker worked with the NAACP, SCLC and SNCC and championed participatory, community-led organizing.
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Ella Fitzgerald (drag queen)
1955–
Ella Fitzgerald is the drag persona of Donnell Robinson (born c. 1955), an American drag queen based in Washington, D.C. Known as "the doyenne of D.C.'s drag scene," she hosted a long-running show at the drag club Ziegfeld's and is a mainstay of the city's…
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Ella Mahammitt
1863–1932
Ella Lillian Davis Browne Mahammitt (November 22, 1863 – September 9, 1932) was an American journalist, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist from Omaha, Nebraska. She was editor of the black weekly newspaper The Enterprise, president of…
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Elle Varner
1989–
Gabrielle Serene Varner (born February 12, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Born into a musical family in Brooklyn and raised in Los Angeles, Varner studied at New York University's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. In October 2009, she…
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