Mary Church Terrell
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 70 years ago |
Date of birth | September 23,1863 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Memphis |
Tennessee | |
United States | |
Date of died | July 24,1954 |
Died | Anne Arundel Medical Center |
Inc. | |
Spouse | Robert Heberton Terrell |
Parents | Robert Reed Church |
Louisa Ayers | |
Job | Journalist |
Education | Oberlin College |
Books | A colored woman in a white world |
The Progress of Colored Women: Three Civil Rights Speeches by the First Black Woman to Receive a College Education in the United States of America (H | |
Gl Auto Jane Pitt/Rdgs Gr10 00 | |
Gravity Girl: A Diagram of Descent, Poetry | |
The Progress of Colored Women: Three Civil Rights Speeches by the First Black Woman to Receive a College Education in the United States of America | |
Other name | Euphemia Kirk |
Children | Phyllis Terrell |
Mary Terrell Tancil Beaupreu | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 468293 |
Mary Church Terrell Life story
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. She taught in the Latin Department at the M Street School —the first African American public high school in the nation—in Washington, DC.