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1996–
Elizabeth "Ebee" Nicole Price (born May 28, 1996) is an American retired artistic gymnast. Price was an alternate for the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymnastics team, the 2014 American Cup Champion, and the 2013-2014 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup All Around…
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Elizabeth Renner (died 1826) (maiden name Elizabeth Richards) was a Canadian-born missionary teacher who taught in Sierra Leone. Renner was a Nova Scotia Settler. She emigrated from Nova Scotia to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1792.
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Elizabeth Scott Flood (née Thorn; c. 1828–1867) was a 19th-century African American educator and activist in California. Flood was a "colored school" teacher in Sacramento, California and later fought for equal education rights for all children in Oakland,…
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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…
1967–
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor (née Elizabeth Anne Pryor; April 25, 1967) is an American historian. She is a professor of history at Smith College. Pryor is the author of Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War (2016), a…
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Elizabeth Stumm, known by her pen name Mrs. C. C. Stumm (née T. Elizabeth Penman; March 25, 1857 – May 19, 1910) was an African-American teacher and journalist. As her first husband was involved in missionary service, the couple moved often, but Stumm was…
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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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Elizabeth Wayne is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at University of Washington. Previously she was an Assistant Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and, prior to that, a Postdoc at the Center for…
1871–1966
Ella Barksdale Brown (June 22, 1871 – November 7, 1966) was an American anti-lynching advocate, activist, educator, suffragette and journalist. She was a member of the first graduating class of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Ella D. Barrier (c. 1852 — February 9, 1945) was an American educator and clubwoman. Her younger sister was Fannie Barrier Williams.
1879–1962
Ella Victoria Lonn (1879 – 1962) was a scholar of American history in the United States. She wrote about desertion during the Civil War, the role of foreigners in the conflict, and the Reconstruction era. She studied at the University of Chicago and the…
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Ella Viola Payne Moran (August 30, 1898 – March 1985) was an American educator and clubwoman. She coordinated the practical nursing program at Margaret Murray Washington Vocational High School in Washington, D.C. She was honored by the District of Columbia…
1917–2008
Ella Pearson Mitchell (1917 - 2008) was a Baptist minister, preacher, educator, and author. She was one of the first African-American women to graduate from Union Theological Seminary, and was later ordained to the Christian ministry in 1978. She was the…
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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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Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark (April 14, 1823 – December 21, 1892) was an African American educator, abolitionist, and early Civil Rights activist, whose defiance of "whites only" social spaces has been compared to Rosa Parks' actions in the 20th century.…
1935–2005
Ellen Swepson Jackson (1935 – 2005) was an American educator and activist. She is best known for founding Operation Exodus, a program that bused students from overcrowded, predominantly black Boston schools to less crowded, predominantly white schools in…
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Ellen Thomas (born 3 February 1954) is a Sierra Leonean-British actress, known for her roles as Liz Webbe in the Channel 4 sitcom Teachers and Claudette Hubbard in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She is also known for her recent voice role in the Netflix…
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Elliot Jones is an American baseball coach and former first baseman, who recently was the head baseball coach of the Alabama A&M Bulldogs. He played college baseball at Southern for coach Roger Cador from 2012 to 2014.
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Elliott E. Connie is an American psychotherapist, author, and trainer associated with the practice and dissemination of Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), a goal-oriented model of psychotherapy. He has authored several works on SFBT and contributes to…
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Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. (November 14, 1934 – April 1, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and educator. Active since the late 1940s, Marsalis came to greater attention in the 1980s and 1990s as the patriarch of the Marsalis musical family, when sons…
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Ellis O'Neal Knox (1898–1975) was the first African American to be awarded a PhD in California. Knox received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1922 from the University of California, Berkeley and his doctorate in the history and philosophy of education from…
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Ellora Derenoncourt ( də-REN-ən-kort) is an American economist. She is an assistant professor of economics in the Industrial Relations Section of the Department of Economics at Princeton University and a member of the Industrial Relations Section of…
1942–2011
Ellsworth Augustus Ausby (April 5, 1942 – March 6, 2011) was an African-American visual artist and educator known for his abstract work and experimentation with supports and surfaces.
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Elma Ina Lewis (September 15, 1921 – January 1, 2004) was an American arts educator and the founder of The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and the National Center of Afro-American Artists. In 1981 she was one of the first recipients of the newly organized…
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