Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable
women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Active
in both the civil rights movement and the campaign for women's
suffrage, Terrell was a leading spokesperson for the National
American Woman Suffrage Association, the first president of the
National Association of Colored Women, and the first black woman
appointed to the District of Columbia Board of Education and the
American Association of University Women. She was also a charter
member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People. In this autobiography, originally published in 1940,
Terrell describes the important events and people in her
life.Terrell began her career as a teacher, first at Wilberforce
College and then at a high school in Washington, D.C., where she
met her future husband, Robert Heberton Terrell. After marriage,
the women's suffrage movement attracted her interests and before
long she became a prominent lecturer at both national and
international forums on women's rights. A gifted speaker, she went
on to pursue a career on the lecture circuit for close to thirty
years, delivering addresses on the critical social issues of the
day, including segregation, lynching, women's rights, the progress
of black women, and various aspects of black history and culture.
Her talents and many leadership positions brought her into close
contact with influential black and white leaders, including
Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar,
Robert Ingersoll, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Jane
Addams, and others. With a new introduction by Debra Newman Ham,
professor of history at Morgan State University, this new edition
of Mary Church Terrell's autobiography will be of interest to
students and scholars of both women's studies and African American
history.
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