Awards and Honorary Degrees
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
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content: Ella Fitzgerald Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1959-2002
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0584, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 6, Honorary Degrees and Awards, 1960-1996  
Honorary degrees and awards presented to Ella Fitzgerald by various universities including Howard University, the University of Southern California, UCLA, and Boston University, among others. The awards are from jazz and music organizations as well as charitable groups whose work Ms. Fitzgerald supported. The series is organized chronologically.