June 26, 1878 [New Orleans, Louisiana] – January 8, 1928 [New York, New York]
[Eloise Bibb taught school in New Orleans as a young woman. Her first book of 26 poems was published in Boston in 1895. From 1908 to 1911 she worked as head resident at the Social Settlement House affiliated with Howard University. 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.” She moved to Los Angeles, California, with her new husband in 1911, and wrote for various publications there, including the Los Angeles Tribune, Morning Sun Out West, and Tidings (published by the Diocese of Los Angeles). She was also active in the Catholic Women’s Clubs of Los Angeles. The Thompsons were considered members of the “Ink Slingers” literary circle in Los Angeles. 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), and Cooped Up (1924), and she was associated with the National Ethiopian Art Theatre in New York.]
