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    Mary Terrell (born Mary Church; September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, teacher and one of the first African-American...
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    The Mary Church Terrell House is a historic house at 326 T Street NW in Washington, D.C. It was a home of civil rights leader Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)...
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    Phyllis Terrell Langston (April 2, 1898 – August 21 1989) was a suffragist and civil rights activist. She worked alongside her mother, Mary Church Terrell, in...
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  • fellow Black activist Mary Church Terrell, along with her daughter Phyllis. Ida favors direct actions to draw attention, while Mary prefers an approach...
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    Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver DSG (née Kennedy, July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009) was an American philanthropist and a member of the Kennedy family. She was...
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    executive secretary. Early members included Josephine Ruffin, Mary Talbert, Mary Church Terrell, Inez Milholland, Jane Addams, George Henry White, W. E. B...
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    children, a daughter, Mary Eliza Church (1863-1954) and son, Thomas Ayres Church (1867-1937). Their daughter Mary Church Terrell was one of the first black...
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    post-Reconstruction era. Notable African-American suffragists such as Mary Church Terrell, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Barrier Williams...
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  • of NACWC's leading members were Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and Mary Church Terrell, who organized their regional women's clubs at the July 1896 convention...
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    other Kindred organizations." Patterson also worked in 1892 with Mary Church Terrell, Anna Julia Cooper, Josephine Beall Bruce, and others, all supporters...
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    English Channel. History.com. Retrieved on May 20, 2014. Dahlberg, Time; Ward, Mary Ederle (2009). America's Girl: The Incredible Story of How Swimmer Gertrude...
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    Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919), commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner...
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    with women educators including Sara W. Brown, Mary Cromwell, Georgiana Simpson, and Mary Church Terrell, founded the College Alumnae Club, known from...
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    Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American academic and animal behaviorist. She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock...
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    one of the most outstanding speakers was African American activist Mary Church Terrell. She and Catt first became acquainted at that time and formed a life-long...
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  • have some influence on the Party and its members. In May 1949, Dr. Mary Church Terrell decided to take on the issue of desegregation head-on. She consulted...
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    George Schuyler and Philippa Schuyler, Muhammad Ali, Robert Reed Church and Mary Church Terrell, Frederick D. Gregory, Thomas P. Mahammitt, Paschal Beverly...
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  • women were Anna J. Cooper, Helen Appo Cook, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Mary Jane Patterson, Evelyn Shaw, and Jane Eleanor...
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  • lawyer Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954), American writer and civil rights activist Pat Terrell (born 1968), American football player Patsy Terrell (1961–2017)...
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  • Sojourners for Truth and Justice convened in Washington, D.C., by Mary Church Terrell. Hansberry traveled to Georgia to cover the case of Willie McGee...
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    Triplett Jones. Shepperd wrote a biography of civil rights leader Mary Church Terrell, published in 1959. In 1960 she was one of the "several women of...
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    Helen Appo Cook, Ida B. Wells, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Mary Jane Peterson, Mary Church Terrell, and Evelyn Shaw formed the Colored Women's League in Washington...
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    Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States...
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    Cabrini became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized a saint by the Catholic Church. She had entered the United States via New York City, and is now the patron...
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  • educator and activist Mary Church Terrell and Zora Neale Hurston. In her autobiography A Colored Woman in a White World (1940), Terrell chronicled her experiences...
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    of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. The other three were Mary Church Terrell, Coralie Franklin Cook and Gabrielle L. Pelham, mother of Dorothy...
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    1987: Random House Value Publishing; ISBN 5-550-36643-6. Fox, Mary Virginia and Molina, Mary. Jane Fonda: Something to Fight for. 1980: Dillon Press; ISBN 0-87518-189-9...
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    Mary Baker Eddy (nee Baker; July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was an American religious leader and author who founded The Church of Christ, Scientist,...
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    Mary Stevenson Cassatt (/kəˈsæt/; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part...
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    is a system of libraries located in Oberlin, Ohio comprising the Mary Church Terrell Main Library, Clarence Ward Art Library, Conservatory Library, and...
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