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Mary Church Terrell, Black Clubwoman and Civil Rights Leader

Mary Church Terrell, Black Clubwoman
Mary Church Terrell, Black Clubwoman

Mary Church Terrell joined the ancestors (Sept 23, 1863 - Jul 24, 1954). Civil rights activist, journalist, teacher, one of the 1st Black women in the country to earn a college degree. She then taught at Wilberforce College in Xenia, Ohio and at M Street High School (now Dunbar High) in Washington DC. She was president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, a founder of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and with Ida Wells-Barnett was one of the two Black women involved in creating the NAACP in 1909.

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