Mary Church Terrell was an icon in the civil rights movement,
advocating for equality and social justice for black women through
a lifetime of campaigning and eloquent oration. Famed for being the
first black woman to gain a college education in the United States,
Mary Terrell put her education to great use. Beginning in the
1890s, she spoke publicly on a range of civil rights which black
Americans and black women were deprived. Throughout these efforts,
Terrell helped coordinate a series of local movements which
campaigned for suffrage and enfranchisement for the black
population. Mary Church Terrell began a trend in the civil rights
movement; her language bursting with eloquence and reason, she
argued for a better intellectual, social and economic life for
black Americans. Black women, who lacked even the right to vote,
were compelled to join the cause, which they did in their
thousands. Living to the age of 90, Terrell was a bridge between
the Reconstruction era and the modern civil rights movement.
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