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25 de mar. de 2021 · Despite their elite status and national renown — Robert Heberton Terrell was a prominent Judge in the D.C. municipal court and a national celebrity by the late 1910s — the Terrells struggled financially. Parker demonstrates the fluidity and capaciousness of “Black elite” status at the turn of the century.
15 de dez. de 2018 · Spouse: Robert Heberton Terrell (m. 1891-1925) Children: Phyllis (only surviving biological child) and Mary (adopted daughter) Key Accomplishments: An early civil rights leader and women's rights advocate, she was one of the first Black American women to earn a college degree.
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". He was ...
10 de dez. de 1998 · She married a lawyer, Robert Heberton Terrell, who would become the first black municipal court judge in the nation's capital. She is best remembered for her contribution to the struggle for the rights of black women; in 1896 she became the first president of the newly-formed National Association of Colored Women (NACW), which sought to achieve educational and social reform, and end ...
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.
27 de ago. de 2020 · She met Robert Heberton Terrell when she started working for the foreign language department at the M Street Colored High School (now known as the Paul Dunbar High School) in 1886. The couple continued working together until they got married in 1891. The first five years after marriage were tragic as they lost 3 children soon after birth.
Mary Church Terrell was born in Tennessee and educated at Oberlin College. She became a school teacher in Washington 1887, and married Robert Heberton Terrell, a prominent African-American attorney, in 1891.
