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Ella D. Barrier (1852 — February 9, 1945) was an African American educator and clubwoman. Her younger sister was Fannie Barrier Williams.


Early life

Ella (or Ellen) D. Barrier was born in
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, the daughter of Anthony J. Barrier, a barber, and Harriet A. Prince Barrier. Both parents were born in the northern United States. Her younger sister was Fannie Barrier Williams. Ella graduated from the Brockport Normal and Training School in 1871, trained to be a school teacher.


Career

Ella Barrier was hired in 1875 to teach in the segregated schools of Washington, D.C. She stayed in Washington for more than forty years, working as a teacher, school principal, and clubwoman. Barrier helped develop the Washington branch of the YWCA. In 1891, she taught in Toronto, as part of a teacher exchange project. In 1900 she and her sister traveled as African-American representatives at the Paris Exposition, and to the First Pan-African Conference in London, in a delegation that included Anna Julia Cooper and
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.Vivian M. May
''Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction''
(Routledge 2012): 28, 31.
She was active in the Colored Women's League in Washington.


Personal life

Ella D. Barrier and her sister lived together in Brockport in their last years.Faith Berry
''From Bondage to Liberation: Writings by and about Afro-Americans''
(A&C Black 2006): 348.
Fannie died in 1944, and Ella died in 1945, aged 92 years.


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