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22 de jul. de 2020 · Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), the daughter of former slaves, was a national leader for civil rights and women’s suffrage.Her activism was sparked in 1892 when one of her childhood friends was ...
This video was created by the New-York Historical Society Teen Leaders in collaboration with the Untold project. Mary Eliza Church was born on September 23, 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee. Her parents, Robert Church and Louisa Ayers, were formerly enslaved. By the time Mary was born, they were both highly successful small-business owners.
Mary Church Terrell nasceu em Memphis, Tennessee, em 1863 - o mesmo ano em que o presidente Abraham Lincoln assinou a Proclamação de Emancipação. Ambos os pais eram ex-escravos que se tornaram bem sucedidos nos negócios: sua mãe, Louisa, era dona de um salão de cabeleireiro de sucesso, e seu pai, Robert, tornou-se um dos primeiros milionários negros americanos no sul.
3 de fev. de 2020 · 19th Amendment at 100: Mary Church Terrell. The 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, but this landmark event was neither the beginning nor the end of the story for women and their struggle for the right to vote. Join us in 2020 as we commemorate this centennial year with 12 stories from our holdings for you to save, print, or share.
Reviews of Unceasing Militant “Kudos to Alison Parker for her vivid portrait of the unparalleled Mary Church Terrell. In a life lived between 1863 and the end of slavery and 1954 and the birth of modern civil rights, Terrell used ‘dignified agitation’ to wage a freedom struggle against lynching and racism and in support of women’s votes, equal education, antiwar efforts, and civil rights.
12 de fev. de 2022 · Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954): Educator, Writer, Civil Rights Activist. Introduction: Mary Church Terrell served as a professor and principal at Wilberforce University and became the first black woman appointed to the District of Columbia Board of Education in 1895. The following year, Terrell became president of the newly formed National ...
8 de jun. de 2016 · On February 28, 1950, 86-year-old Mary Church Terrell invited her friends Reverend Arthur F. Elmes, Essie Thompson and David Scull to lunch with her at Thompson’s. Only Scull was white, and when ...
