Eloise Bibb Thompson

Eloise Alberta Veronica Thompson (née Bibb; June 26, 1878 – January 8, 1928) was an American educator, playwright, poet, and journalist.

Howard University president Wilbur P. Thirkield said: "She is a woman who has accomplished a hard task of colored settlement work by putting her heart in it and her life under it and wrought wonderful results.

[5][6][7] Bibb Thompson's A Reply to the Clansman (1915) was a screenplay in response to the film The Birth of a Nation.

[8][9] She wrote at least four plays: A Friend of Democracy (1920), Caught (1920), Africanus (1922, about the life of Marcus Garvey; it was directed by Olga Grey),[10] and Cooped Up (1924), and she was associated with the National Ethiopian Art Theatre in New York.

[11][12][13] Eloise Bibb married editor and fellow writer Noah Davis Thompson in 1911, in Chicago.