Era Bell Thompson

CTL-E-0354 · Person · 1905 or 1906–1986

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Editor at Johnson Publishing Company (Negro Digest, Ebony)

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001, BPM-003; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BPM-003:per-thompson, CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-056; source research type(s): Person, person.

Sources

governor.nd.gov
governor.nd.gov vs mic.com
Era Thompson helped shape Ebony magazine (AA Registry); Rutgers dissertation on Era Bell Thompson
Era Thompson helped shape Ebony magazine

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