Estella B. Diggs

Estella B. Diggs (April 21, 1916 – April 18, 2013) was an American businesswoman, writer and politician from New York.

Life

She was born on April 21, 1916, in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended Pace College, City College of New York and New York University. She was in the real estate and catering businesses and was a career counselor. She was also a writer.[1]

Estella Diggs was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1973 to 1980, sitting in the 180th, 181st, 182nd and 183rd New York State Legislatures. She represented the Morrisania section of the Bronx. She helped write more than 70 bills and was responsible for the first Women's, Infants, and Children's program in the state and the first sobering-up station in the Bronx.[2] On November 7, 2011, Estella Diggs Park was dedicated in the Morrisania neighborhood.[3]

She died in 2013, three days before her 97th birthday, in a hospital in the Bronx.[2]

gollark: I don't mean the cabinet, I mean the rest of the government and large companies.
gollark: It seems like regardless of how you pick the leaders and whatever, big organisations just operate increasingly badly over time/scale.
gollark: In any case, I don't even know if there's any way to get stable, fair and actually competent large-scale governance at this point.
gollark: Hmm.
gollark: It doesn't seem like keeping the same governments in power eternally has actually produced good outcomes.

References
  1. Who's Who Among African Americans (2009), Biographical Sketch of Estella Diggs
  2. Diggs obit with brief profile Archived 2013-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Beekman, Daniel “New pocket park in Morrisania named for first Bronx African-American Assemblywoman Estella Diggs” New York Daily News 11/7/2011
New York State Assembly
Preceded by
Louis Niñé		 New York State Assembly
78th District
1973–1980		 Succeeded by
Gloria Davis



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