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Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Robert Terrell graduated from Harvard College in 1884 and then attended law school at Howard University. He taught in public schools in Washington, D.C., for five years. He then resigned to work as chief clerk in the office of the auditor of the U.S. Treasury.
9 de fev. de 2022 · On October 18, 1891, Mary Church Terrel got married to Robert Heberton Terrell, a lawyer who would go on to become the nation’s first black municipal court judge. Activism Terrell addressed a wide range of social issues over her long career, including the Jim Crow Law, lynching, and the convict lease system, as an articulate spokesman, adept political organizer, and prolific writer.
Judge Robert Heberton Terrell. Born 27 Nov 1857 in Orange, Virginia, United States. Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] [sibling (s) unknown] Husband of Mary Eliza (Church) Terrell — married 28 Oct 1891 in Shelby, Tennessee, United States. Father of Phyllis Terrell. Died 20 Dec 1925 at age 68 in Washington D.C., United States.
Robert Heberton Terrell (November 27, 1857 – December 20, 1925) was an attorney and the second African American to serve as a justice of the peace in Washington, DC. In 1911 he was appointed as a judge to the District of Columbia Municipal Court by President William Howard Taft; he was one of four African-American men appointed to high office and considered his "Black Cabinet".
Terrell and Cooper went on to gain master’s degrees in education, among the first Black women to earn an MA. Both women also went on to teach at M Street High School (later named Dunbar High School) in Washington, D.C., but Terrell was forced to resign after she married her husband, Robert Heberton Terrell, who also taught there.
The papers of Robert Heberton Terrell (1857-1925) span the years 1870-1954, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1884-1925. The collection consists mainly of correspondence, speeches and writings, clippings, printed matter, and miscellaneous items.
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.
