| Ellen Diggs | |
| Birth Date: | 1906 |
| Birth Place: | Monmouth, Illinois |
| Death Date: | 1998 |
| Alma Mater: | Monmouth College University of Minnesota Clark Atlanta University |
| Main Interests: | anthropologist |
| Influences: | W. E. B. Du Bois |
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]
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. As Du Bois' research assistant, she aided in the research of five of his books.