Ella Forbes is retired and living in Central America. During her academic career she was Associate Professor of African American Studies at Temple University, where she earned her Ph.D.

Dr. Forbes scholarly work focuses on resistance activities in the African American community, and she is the author of two books, African American Women During the Civil War and But We Have No Country: The 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance, co-author of the forthcoming title, The Color Line Revisited: Readings in African American History, and contributor to several academic journals. Forbes taught courses in African American history, mass media and the black community, African American social and political thought, black women, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.

In addition to teaching, Ella has worked as a consultant on African American history and educational projects, including conducting research for the Goodman versus Lukens Steel Company discrimination suit (Pennsylvania). Her community service involved serving as an officer of the United States Colored Troops Memorial Committee, a nonprofit cultural organization in Philadelphia that provided Civil War interpretive history programs and exhibits for Independence National Park (on July 4), 3 regional branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia, various academic institutions, the New Jersey State Aquarium, the American Women's Heritage Society at Belmont Mansion, among others.

If you would like to contact Dr. Forbes, please send her an e-mail at ellaforbes@comcast.net.

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