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    Era Bell Thompson

    American journalist

    Era Bell Thompson (August 10, 1905 – December 30, 1986) was an American writer and editor.

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    • Thompson was born in Des Moines, Iowa,[2] to an African American family, the only daughter of Steward "Tony" Thompson and Mary Logan Thompson, the children of formerly enslaved people. She graduated from the University of North Dakota (UND), pursued a career as an author, and was a long-time editor and journalist for Ebony magazine in Chicago.

    Thompson was a recipient of the governor of North Dakota's Roughrider Award, and a multicultural center at UND is named for her.

    Early years

    In 1914, her parents moved Thompson and her three brothers to Driscoll, North Dakota, where they were the only black family in the small community, and she and her brothers were often the only African-Americans in the schools they attended.

    Thompson would find herself in similar situations for much of her youth and into early adulthood. She wrote