Mary Church Terrell Collection

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Mary Church Terrell Collection

1888-1976

https://dh.howard.edu/finaid_manu/191/

Lecturer, author, civil rights activist. Correspondence, clippings, newspaper articles, pamphlets, broadsides, and other printed matter, and other papers chiefly relating to the National Association of Colored Women, of which Mrs. Terrell was first national president. Documents Terrell's work on behalf of women's rights, and against racial discrimination. Consists of her writings about peace, women's rights, black history. Also includes drafts of her autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World, and Phyllis Wheatley: A Pageant. Contains numerous material relating to the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Contains family papers of R. R. Church, Mrs. Terrell's husband, District of Columbia Municipal Court Judge Robert H. Terrell, and Phyllis Terrell. Also includes seven diaries, copies of minutes (1935-36) of the Race Relations Federation of Churches, and letters addressed to Olivia Davidson Washington (Mrs. Booker T. Washington) concerning the International Council of the Women of the Darker Races.

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Terrell, Phyllis, 1898-1989

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Phyllis Terrell Langston (April 2, 1898 - August 1989) was a suffragist and civil rights activist. She worked alongside her mother, Mary Church Terrell, in the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs and the White House pickets during demonstrations made by the National Woman's Party. Phyllis Terrell was born on April 2, 1898 in Washington, DC to Mary Church Terrell, an activist and civic leader, and Robert H. Terrell, the first Black municipal court judge in D.C., and was appointed by ...