Women / Persons ~ P24172
Ella Sheppard
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Social Networks and Archival ContextGender: Female
Life Dates: 4 February 1851 - 9 June 1914
Types:
- Activist
- Activist, Civil Rights
- African American
- Performer, singer
- Reformer, political
- Slave, bondservant, former slave
- Teacher
Note: Musician and pianist. Matriarch of the Fisk Jubilee Singers at Fisk University. Was close to Fredrick Douglass.