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Mary Church Terrell, American Activist and Educator

Mary Church Terrell (September 23, 1863 - July 24, 1954) was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and an activist for civil rights and suffrage. She taught in the at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School - the first African-American public high school in the nation - in Washington, DC. Terrell was a charter member of the NAACP and the Colored Women's League of Washington. She lived to see the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, holding unconstitutional the racial segregation of public schools. Twentieth Century Negro Literature by Daniel Wallace Culp, 1902 (cropped and cleaned).
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Mary Church Terrell, American Activist and Educator
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Mary Church Terrell (September 23, 1863 - July 24, 1954) was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and an activist for civil rights and suffrage. She taught in the at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School - the first African-American public high school in the nation - in Washington, DC. Terrell was a charter member of the NAACP and the Colored Women's League of Washington. She lived to see the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, holding unconstitutional the racial segregation of public schools. Twentieth Century Negro Literature by Daniel Wallace Culp, 1902 (cropped and cleaned).
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