Ella Gaines Yates

An haifi Yates a cikin sanannen, dangi kuma mai arziki a Atlanta,Jojiya. Ta halarci makarantar sakandare ta Booker T.Washington .An yarda da ita zuwa Spelman a ranar 13 ga Yuli,1944.Ta rubuta a cikin wasiƙar shigarta zuwa kwalejin,"Ina fatan in zo Spelman,domin ina jin babu wata kwaleji a ko'ina a duniya don yarinya don samun horo don shirya ta don samun babbar riba a rayuwa.A koyaushe ina duba.gaba don shiga Kwalejin Spelman,saboda daliban Spelman suna da wani iska game da su wanda ke nuna hali da al'adu.Da gaske zan fada cikin layi." Yates ya kammala karatun digiri na farko daga Spelman a 1949. Ta sadu da mijinta,Clayton Yates,a Morehouse College.

Ella Gaines Yates
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Atlanta, 14 ga Yuni, 1927
ƙasa	Tarayyar Amurka
Mutuwa	27 ga Yuni, 2006
Karatu
Makaranta	Spelman College (en) Clark Atlanta University (en)
Sana'a
Sana'a	librarian (en)

Yates ta sami digiri na MLS daga Jami'ar Atlanta a 1951,kuma ya ci gaba da kasancewa fitaccen memba na ɗakin karatu na Ba'amurke. An ɗauke ta a matsayin mataimakiyar ma’aikaciyar laburaren reshe a Laburaren Jama’a na Brooklyn daga 1951 zuwa 1955.Daga nan ta tafi zuwa Laburaren Jama'a na Orange a New Jersey don zama shugabar sashin yara,Laburare na Jama'a na East Orange ma'aikacin laburare,da Montclair Public Library a matsayin mataimakiyar darakta daga 1970 zuwa 1972.

Yates ya kasance memba na Ƙungiyar Lantarki ta Amirka (ALA) da Black Caucus na ALA.Ta kasance memba na NAACP,kuma ta taimaka samun lambar yabo ta Coretta Scott King Book Award.Ta buga wata kasida mai suna "Sexism in the Library Sana'ar." Ta yi aiki a matsayin marubuciyar bincike don Hukumar Kare Haƙƙin Bil Adama ta Amurka,kuma memba na Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Ta kirkiro kamfaninta mai suna Yates Library Consultants.Ta kasance farfesa mai ziyara a Makarantar Graduate of Library na Jami'ar Atlanta daga 1976 zuwa 1981.

Yates da danginta sun ƙaura zuwa Seattle,Washington inda ta kafa Cibiyar Bayar da Labura da Koyo don Cibiyar Samar da Damar Samar da Sana'a na Seattle.Ta kuma fara koyarwa a Makarantar Karatun Karatu ta Jami'ar Washington. Daga baya ta karɓi matsayi a matsayin Ma'aikacin Laburaren Jiha na Laburaren Jihar Virginia. Yates ta ji daɗin wannan matsayi amma ba da daɗewa ba ta fuskanci matsaloli iri ɗaya da ta yi a Atlanta.An sallame ta kuma ta koma Atlanta.Ta dawo a matsayin darekta na wucin gadi a 1998,amma ta bar mukamin a ranar 31 ga Disamba saboda takaddama da hukumar kula da ɗakin karatu.