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A Colored Woman In A White World
487
by Mary Church Terrell, Debra Newman Ham (Introduction)
Mary Church Terrell
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A Colored Woman In A White World
487
by Mary Church Terrell, Debra Newman Ham (Introduction)
Mary Church Terrell
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Overview
Though today she is little known, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Active in both the civil rights movement and the campaign for women's suffrage, Terrell was a leading spokesperson for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the first president of the National Association of Colored Women, and the first black woman appointed to the District of Columbia Board of Education and the American Association of University Women. She was also a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In this autobiography, originally published in 1940, Terrell describes the important events and people in her life.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. A gifted speaker, she went on to pursue a career on the lecture circuit for close to thirty years, delivering addresses on the critical social issues of the day, including segregation, lynching, women's rights, the progress of black women, and various aspects of black history and culture. Her talents and many leadership positions brought her into close contact with influential black and white leaders, including Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Ingersoll, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, and others.With a new introduction by Debra Newman Ham, professor of history at Morgan State University, this new edition of Mary Church Terrell's autobiography will be of interest to students and scholars of both women's studies and African American history.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781538145982 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 11/16/2020 |
Series: | Classics in Black Studies |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 487 |
File size: | 873 KB |
About the Author
Mary Church Terrell was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage.
Table of Contents
Foreword, Debra Newman Ham
Introduction
- My Parents
- Early Childhood
- I am Sent North to School
- My Parents Send Me to Oberlin, Ohio
- I Enter Oberlin College
- Activities During College Course
- I Go to Memphis, Teach Wilberforce and Washington and Go Abroad
- I Study in Germany
- In Europe with Mother and Brother
- I Leave Berlin and Go to Florence
- I Return to the United States
- With Frederick Douglass and Paul Dunbar at the World’s Fair
- Buying a Home Under Difficulties
- Learning to Cook and Entertaining Guests
- The Commissioners of the National Capital Appoint Me a Member of the School Board
- The National American Woman Suffrage Association Invites Me to Speak
- Club Work
- On the Lecture Platform
- Notable Lecture Engagements
- Prince Henry of Prussia, Dr. Brooker T. Washington
- In Berlin, Germany
- Distinguished People I Met Abroad
- My Efforts to Succeed as a Writer
- My Children and I
- My Experience as a Clerk in a Government Department
- Efforts in Senate to Prevent Judge Terrell’s Confirmation
- The Secretary of War Suspends Order Dismissing Colored Soldiers at My Request
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Centenary and My Sally into Spiritualism
- Trying to Get a Colored Girl into an Academy in the North
- Traveling Under Difficulties
- Political Activities—Charged with Disorderly Conduct
- Work in War Camp Community Service
- Delegate to the International Peace Congress
- Meeting Old Friends and New—Plus a Dose of Race Prejudice Administered by My Countrymen
- A Week-end Visit with Mr. and Mrs. H. G.Wells—I Meet Other Distinguished People in England
- Employed by Ruth Hanna McCormick to Help in Her Campaign for the United States Senate. Abroad with My Daughter
- A Few Cases of Friction
- Crossing the Color Line
- The Colored Man’s Paradise
- Social Activities
- I Address the International Assembly of the World Fellowship of Faiths in London and Meet Haile Selassie
- Carrying On
Index
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