Ella Mahammitt
Ella Mahammitt | |
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Photo from the Enterprise, April 4, 1896 | |
| Born | Ella Lillian Davis 22 November 1863 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | 9 September 1932 (aged 68) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Evergreen Cemetery (Los Angeles) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, nurse, civil rights activist |
| Spouse |
Dr. John M. Browne
(m. 1884; div. 1890)Alonzo R. Cassells
(m. 1904; died 1910) |
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 Omaha's Colored Women's Club, and an officer of local branches of the Afro-American League. In 1895, she was vice-president of the National Federation of Afro-American Women, headed by Margaret James Murray, and in 1896 was a committee member of the successor organization, the National Association of Colored Women, under president Mary Church Terrell.