Eva Cornelia Connor Blackburn (c. 1894 – December 20, 1977) was an educator, suffragist, and community leader from Aiken, South Carolina. She studied at Atlanta University and later at Columbia University, before beginning a long teaching career at institutions including Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Central High School in Louisville, and the Aiken Public School System. In 1920, while teaching in Ettrick, Virginia, she became one of the first Black women there to register to vote after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, a moment preserved in photographs of Virginia Normal faculty.

She was a charter member of Alpha Kappa Alpha’s Kappa Omega Chapter in Atlanta and later active in Louisville’s Eta Omega Chapter, remembered for her service in vocational guidance and flood relief. In her hometown, she worked through the Church of Our Merciful Savior, the Girls’ Friendly Society, and local civic groups.

Eva Blackburn passed away on December 20, 1977, in Aiken, where her funeral was held at Wesley United Methodist Church. She rests at Pine Lawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

Her life of scholarship and service left a lasting legacy, and she is remembered with gratitude for her role as an educator and one of the early Black women voters of the South.