A colored woman in a white world [manuscript]. [ca. 1940]

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A colored woman in a white world [manuscript]. [ca. 1940]

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Draft manuscript page of the autobiography of Mary Church Terrell describing her reaction to the death of her baby.

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Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954

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Mary Church Terrell was born Sept. 23, 1863 in Memphis, TN. Her parents, Robert Reed Church and Louisa Ayers, were freed slaves. She majored in Classics at Oberlin College, the first college in the United States to accept African American and female students; she was one of the first African American women to attend the institution. Terrell graduated in 1884 with Anna Julia Cooper and Ida Gibbs Hunt. She earned her master's degree in Education from Oberlin in 1888. She began teaching at Wilberfo...