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Prophet, Elizabeth (1890–1960)
African-American sculptor. Born Nancy Elizabeth Prophet on March 19, 1890, in Warwick, Rhode Island; died in December 1960, in Providence, Rhode Island; second of four children of William H.
Prophet (a laborer) and Rosa E. (Walker) Prophet; graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, in 1918; married Francis Ford (a university student), on January 30, 1915 (legally separated, June 1932); no children.
If ever a woman suffered for her art, it was African-American sculptor Elizabeth Prophet, who actually endured periods of starvation during her career.
"I am a fighter, determined and non-retreating," she once declared in her diary. "I only stop when I drop." Prophet enjoyed brief periods of success during the late 1920s and early 1930s, but struggled on and off with poverty throughout her life.
For ten years beginning in 1934, she held a teaching position at Spelman College in Atlanta, after which time she returned to Rhode Island, where she work