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13 de jun. de 2024 · Mary Church Terrell—first president of the National Association of Colored Women; cofounder of the NAACP; active in the struggle for civil rights for over five decades; and internationally known lecturer, activist, and author—has never been the subject of a full-length scholarly biography until Alison M. Parker’s recent work ...
Hace 3 días · The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, by a larger group including African Americans W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, Mary Church Terrell, and the previously named whites Henry Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling (the wealthy Socialist son of a former slave-holding family), Florence Kelley ...
8 de jun. de 2024 · The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in restaurants in Washington, D.C., was unlawful. Civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell had led that fight. Such discrimination had not always existed in the nation’s capital.
Hace 4 días · With the help of feminist and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell, Sgt Sanders and Private Elmer Brown of the Twenty-fifth US Infantry were able to successfully reenlist into the military on December 12, 1906.
Hace 1 día · Educators’ use of pageants and history plays such as W. E. B. DuBois’s The Star of Ethiopia (1911), Dorothy Guinn’s Out of the Dark (1924), Mary Church Terrell’s “Historical Pageant-Play Based on the Life of Phyllis [sic] Wheatley” (1932), and those anthologized in Willis Richardson’s Plays and Pageants from the Life of the Negro (1930) and Richardson and May Miller’s Negro ...
9 de jun. de 2024 · The Mary Church Terrell Main Library, named for a celebrated feminist and civil rights activist and 1884 Oberlin alumna houses our collections in the humanities and social sciences and much of the libraries' staff.
30 de may. de 2024 · This episode explores Mary Church Terrell, an educator, writer, and activist who fought for equal rights for Black people and voting rights for women.
