Mary Church Terrell

Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length portrait…. ca. 1880-1900. Free to Use and Reuse: African-American Women Changemakers. Prints & Photographs Division

Mary Church Terrell—educator, political activist, and first president of the National Association of Colored Women—was born on September 23, 1863, in Memphis, Tennessee. An 1884 graduate of Oberlin College External, America’s first college to admit women and amongst the first to admit students of all races, Terrell was one of the first American women of African descent to graduate from college. She earned her master’s degree from Oberlin in 1888.

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