Editing Ella Fitzgerald (section)

==Discography and collections==
{{main|Ella Fitzgerald albums discography|Ella Fitzgerald singles discography}}

The primary collections of Fitzgerald's media and memorabilia reside at and are shared between the [[Smithsonian Institution]] and the [[Library of Congress|US Library of Congress]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wong |first=Hannah |title='First Lady of Song' LC Collection Tells Ella Fitzgerald Story |url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9708/ella.html |access-date=March 19, 2013 |publisher=LOC}}</ref>

===Awards, citations and honors===
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Ella Fitzgerald}}
Fitzgerald won 13 [[Grammy Award]]s,<ref name="Grammy Awards">{{Cite web |title=Ella Fitzgerald |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/ella-fitzgerald/16685 |access-date=March 12, 2022 |website=grammy.com |publisher=[[The Recording Academy]]}}</ref> and received the [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]] in 1967.<ref name="Grammy Awards" />

In 1958 Fitzgerald became the first African-American woman to win at the inaugural show.<ref name="Grammy Awards" />

Other major awards and honors she received during her career were the [[Kennedy Center Honors|Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award]], [[National Medal of Arts|National Medal of Art]], first [[Society of Singers]] Lifetime Achievement Award (named "Ella" in her honor), [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]], and the [[UCLA Spring Sing The George and Ira Gershwin Award|George and Ira Gershwin Award]] for Lifetime Musical Achievement, [[UCLA Spring Sing]], and the UCLA Medal (1987).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Calendar & Events: Spring Sing: Gershwin Award |url=http://www.uclalumni.net/CalendarEvents/springsing/Gershwin/winners.cfm |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817021611/http://www.uclalumni.net/calendarevents/springsing/Gershwin/winners.cfm |archive-date=August 17, 2011 |publisher=UCLA}}</ref> Across town at the [[University of Southern California]], she received the USC "Magnum Opus" Award, which hangs in the office of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation. In 1986, she received an honorary doctorate of music from Yale University.<ref name="Rockwell 1986">{{Cite web |last=Rockwell |first=John |author-link=John Rockwell |date=June 15, 1986 |title=Half a Century of Song with the Great 'Ella' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/15/arts/half-a-century-of-song-with-the-great-ella.html |access-date=July 4, 2019 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> In 1990, she received an [[honorary doctorate]] of Music from [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Partial List of Harvard Honorary Degrees |url=http://www.harvard.edu/honorary-degrees |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150805061552/http://www.harvard.edu/honorary-degrees |archive-date=August 5, 2015 |access-date=May 30, 2013 |publisher=[[Harvard University]]}}</ref>