Elizabeth Scott Flood (née Thorn; c. 1828–1867) was a 19th-century African American educator and activist in California.
[1] In New Bedford, Massachusetts, she received a good education, and married her first husband, Joseph Scott.
[2] In 1852, now Elizabeth Thorn Scott, she moved to California with her husband Joseph and settled in Placerville.
Joseph worked as a gold miner and died shortly after their arrival, leaving Scott alone to care for their son Oliver.
[5][3] Thus, with the help of the local African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, Saint Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church, in May 1854, Elizabeth Thorn Scott opened, at her home, a small private school for African-American children on Second Street, between M and N Streets.
[3] The couple and their two children soon moved to Brooklyn, California, a thriving small community near Oakland.
By 1857, Elizabeth Flood and her husband Isaac opened a school for African American children at their home on East 15th Street.