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Elizabeth Piper Ensley was born in the Carribbeans in 1848.
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When Elizabeth was 19, she studied in Germany and France.
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She moved to Boston in the 1860,and helped create a libary and became a teacher.
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In 1882, Elizabeth married Howell N. Ensley. The couple moved to Washington,D.C.,Where they were associated with Howard University, the flagship college founded and attended primarly by African Americans
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After moving to Washington,ten years later they moved to Denver.
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In Denver, Elizabeth continued working for Womens Civil Right. Later, she became the denver reporter for the Womens Era,a newsletter of the Colored Women's Association.
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Elizabeth founded Colorado Equal Suffrge Association,the Colored Womens Republican Club,and the Colorado Federation of Womens Clubs.
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Elizabeth died in 1919, becase she was old.
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Today,Elizabeth has in exhibit downtown called Women of the West.
