Mary Church Terrell Quotes

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; in 1909 she was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She taught and was a principal at an academic high school in Washington, DC; in 1896 she was the first African-American woman in the United States to be appointed to a school board of a major city, serving in the District of Columbia until 1906. Terrell led several important associations, including the National Association of Colored Women.

Terrell was the daughter of former mixed-race slaves who helped build the black elite in Memphis, Tennessee after the American Civil War. Her father Robert Reed Church became a wealthy business entrepreneur and was widely considered the first African-American millionaire in the South.

✵ 23. September 1863 – 24. July 1954
Mary Church Terrell photo
Mary Church Terrell: 6   quotes 0   likes

Famous Mary Church Terrell Quotes

Similar authors

Rosa Parks photo
Rosa Parks 22
African-American civil rights activist
Malcolm X photo
Malcolm X 180
American human rights activist
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo
Martin Luther King, Jr. 658
American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci…
Muhammad Ali photo
Muhammad Ali 100
African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Nadine Gordimer photo
Nadine Gordimer 57
South african Nobel-winning writer
Brigitte Bardot photo
Brigitte Bardot 35
French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist
Desmond Tutu photo
Desmond Tutu 85
South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Priz…
Eleanor Roosevelt photo
Eleanor Roosevelt 148
American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady…
Jack London photo
Jack London 77
American author, journalist, and social activist
Helen Keller photo
Helen Keller 156
American author and political activist