Great Black Women of the World
Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana and one was born in the South. USA. They had the courage to leave the women’s roles their society wanted from them to make major positive changes for all people and especially for dark skinned women. Terrell founded the NACW National Association of Colored Women and she was a founding member of the organization that is still in existence, the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Abina story is of a court suit being taken up against a master. Ama is about a girl who in 1775 was kidnapped and made a slave but survived with due to her strong personality.
Part II. See Appendix for the information from the Library of Congress on Mary Church Terrell. There is a short biography and a timeline of her life I can include. Also in Part III I will include photos from Abina and Ama and of Mary Church Terrell.
This is the information about Mary Church Terrell from the Library of Congress that shows a timeline of her lifetime accomplishments.
1863, Sept. 23 Born, Memphis, Tenn.
circa 1869 Attended “Model School” for children, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
1884 A.B., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1885-1887 Taught at Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio
1887-1888 Taught at High School for Colored Youth, Washington, D.C.
1888 A.M., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1888-1890 Studied and traveled in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy
1890-1891 Resumed teaching, High School for Colored Youth, Washington, D.C.
1891 Married Robert H. Terrell (died 1925)
1895-1901 Appointed to District of Columbia School Board
1896 Organized and became first president of the National Association of Colored
Women
1898-1920 Active in woman's suffrage movement
Mary Church Terrell Papers 41904 Addressed International Congress of Women, Berlin, Germany
1906-1911 Reappointed to District of Columbia School Board
1909 Charter member, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
1918-1919 Served in War Camp Community Service
1919 Addressed Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Zurich,
Switzerland
1920 Appointed supervisor, Committee for Eastern District Work among Colored
Women, Republican National Committee
1929-1930 Campaigned for Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate
1932 Served as adviser to the Republican National Committee, Herbert Hoover
presidential campaign
1937 Represented American black women at World Fellowship of Faiths, London,
England
1940 Published autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World. Washington,
D.C.: Ransdell
1949 Admitted to membership in the American Association of University Women
after being rejected by the Washington, D.C., branch
Elected chairman, Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C.
Anti-Discrimination Laws
1954, July 24 Died, Annapolis, Md.
“I want to Grow-up to be an Uppity Black Woman.
I am 12 years old and I am a great kid to have around according to Grandma. I am writing down some of her Uppity Black Women stories now to share with YOU.
Figure 1 Book cover-Ama , A novel.
Ama was forced to be a slave. She was sent away from western Africa Ama was captured in about 1775 and shipped across the ocean. She tells the story of what is what was like for that to happen to someone. Grandma says she is a real person, or at least like a lot of real people. Ama’s voice is important. The best part is when she starts a rebellion on the slave ship. She had a terrible life to survive but she was always true to herself.
Figure 2 Abina Drawing by Liz Clarke
Over one hundred years ago Abina Mansuh who grew up on the western African coast in Ghana. When the British foreigners came they especially thought strong beautiful girls made the best slaves. She was made a slave. She had a terrible life after that so she ran away. She went to Cape City where she had heard everyone was free but it was only a rumor. Abina was so upset she brought a court case against her former master. The British had abolished slavery but Abina proved in court that slavery had not ended.
Figure 3 Mary Church Terrell (1880-1890) From LOC Web Resources
My favorite story that Grandma tells is about Mary Church Terrell who was born in Tennessee on September 23, 1863. Her parents were former slaves so she was from the first generation African-American born into freedom. Now that she had freedom she used her courage and strength to bring justice to people. She worked in the Civil Rights movement. She began the National Association of Colored Women and she was a founding member of the NAACP. She also wrote a famous book, A Colored Woman in a White World. It is her autobiography. She married my Grandpa Terrell in 1891.
Painting of Mary Church Terrell
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nostri-imago/3011392893/
Part IV. The idea behind the above narrative is to offer a fictional story that would be interesting and fun to read for girls. Learning about female role models is important. Learning the history of African-Americans and the journey they have made is also very important. The narrative tells a story that links three women. The first was kidnapped in African and sold into slavery, the second was sold into slavery to a master in Africa. The third woman is an example of the first freed generation of African American slaves. Hopefully anyone reading the narrative can understand better the journey that imperialism and colonialism forced on women in slavery. The narrative does not have much detail but it does show the strong spirit of black women. Fortunately there is a positive end to the journey but it took many years to bring an end to slavery and a terrible price was paid.
Works Cited
About the Illustrator. Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History. T.R. Getz (author) & L. Clarke (illustrator). 2011. Web. 10 July 2012.
http://www.abina.org/about/about_the_illustrator/
McMillan, Angela. Mary Church Terrell: Online Resources. Library of Science Web Guide. 2011 September 7. Web. 10 July 2012.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2009/ms009311.pdf
Owens, Leslie Howard. This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1977. Retrieved from www.Questia.com
Teichroew, Allan. Mary Church Terrell. A Finding Aid to the Collection of the Library of Congress. 2012 January. Web. 2012 July 10. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/terrell/index.html
Mary Church Terrell Papers
A Finding Aid to the Collection in the
Library of Congress
Prepared by Allan Teichroew
Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress
Washington, D.C.
Contact information: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.contact
Finding aid encoded by Library of
Congress Manuscript Division, 2009
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009311
Latest revision: 2012 JanuaryCollection Summary
Title: Mary Church Terrell Papers
Span Dates: 1851-1962
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1886-1954)
ID No.: MSS42549
Creator: Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1964
Extent: 13,000 items; 51 containers plus 1 oversize; 22.5 linear feet; 34 microfilm reels
Language: Collection material in English, with French and German
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: African-American civil rights leader, lecturer, and educator. Correspondence, diaries,
printed material, clippings, speeches and writings, and other papers focusing primarily on Terrell's
career as an advocate of women's rights and equal treatment for African Americans.
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online
catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by
occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
People
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935--Correspondence.
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955--Correspondence.
Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939--Correspondence.
Burroughs, Nannie Helen, 1879- --Correspondence.
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947--Correspondence.
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933.
De Priest, Oscar, 1871-1951--Correspondence.
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Correspondence.
Fleetwood, Christian A. (Christian Abraham), 1840-1914--Correspondence.
Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916.
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958--Correspondence.
Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923.
Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931--Correspondence.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
Hunton, Addie W., b. 1866--Correspondence.
Katz, Maude White--Correspondence.
Meyer, Eugene, 1875-1959--Correspondence.
Patterson, William L. (William Lorenzo), 1891- --Correspondence.
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979--Correspondence.
Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973--Correspondence.
Simms, Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1880-1944.
Stein, Annie--Correspondence.
Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958--Correspondence.
Terrell family.
Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.
Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954. Colored Woman in a White World. 1940.
Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934--Correspondence.
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949--Correspondence.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915--Correspondence.
Washington, Margaret James Murray, 1861?-1925--Correspondence.
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946--Correspondence.
Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950--Correspondence.
Organizations
Mary Church Terrell Papers 2Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws.
International Purity Conference.
National American Woman Suffrage Association.
National Association of Colored Women (U.S.)
National Purity Conference.
National Woman's Party.
War Camp Community Service (U.S.)
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Young Women's Christian Association.
Subjects
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans--Education.
African Americans--Societies, etc.
Civil rights.
Constitutional amendments--United States.
Elections--Illinois.
Equal rights amendments--United States.
Lynching--United States.
Peonage--United States.
Presidents--United States--Election--1920.
Presidents--United States--Election--1924.
Presidents--United States--Election--1928.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Race relations.
Segregation--Washington (D.C.)
Women's rights.
Women--Societies and clubs.
Women--Suffrage.
Places
Illinois--Politics and government--1865-1950.
United States--Politics and government--1865-1900.
United States--Politics and government--1901-1953.
Occupations
Authors.
Civil rights leaders.
Educators.
Lecturers.
Administrative Information
Provenance
The papers of Mary Church Terrell, educator, lecturer, author, feminist, and civil rights advocate,
were given to the Library of Congress by her daughter, Phyllis Terrell Langston, 1955-1975.
Processing History
The papers of Mary Church Terrell were processed in 1976. The finding aid was revised in 2009.
Transfers
Photographs have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photograph's Division where they
are identified as part of these papers.
Mary Church Terrell Papers 3Related Material
Related collections in the Manuscript Division include the papers of Terrell's husband, Robert H.
Terrell.
Copyright Status
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Mary Church Terrell in these papers and in other
collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
Access and Restrictions
The papers of Mary Church Terrell are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the
Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice
is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Microfilm
A microfilm edition of these papers is available on thirty-four reels. Consult reference staff in the
Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote
preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or
reel number, Mary Church Terrell Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.
Biographical Note
Date Event
1863, Sept. 23 Born, Memphis, Tenn.
circa 1869 Attended “Model School” for children, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
1884 A.B., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1885-1887 Taught at Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio
1887-1888 Taught at High School for Colored Youth, Washington, D.C.
1888 A.M., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1888-1890 Studied and traveled in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy
1890-1891 Resumed teaching, High School for Colored Youth, Washington, D.C.
1891 Married Robert H. Terrell (died 1925)
1895-1901 Appointed to District of Columbia School Board
1896 Organized and became first president of the National Association of Colored
Women
1898-1920 Active in woman's suffrage movement
Mary Church Terrell Papers 41904 Addressed International Congress of Women, Berlin, Germany
1906-1911 Reappointed to District of Columbia School Board
1909 Charter member, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
1918-1919 Served in War Camp Community Service
1919 Addressed Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Zurich,
Switzerland
1920 Appointed supervisor, Committee for Eastern District Work among Colored
Women, Republican National Committee
1929-1930 Campaigned for Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate
from Illinois
1932 Served as adviser to the Republican National Committee, Herbert Hoover
presidential campaign
1937 Represented American black women at World Fellowship of Faiths, London,
England
1940 Published autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World. Washington,
D.C.: Ransdell
1949 Admitted to membership in the American Association of University Women
after being rejected by the Washington, D.C., branch
Elected chairman, Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C.
Anti-Discrimination Laws
1954, July 24 Died, Annapolis, Md.
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) span the years 1851 to 1962, with the bulk of the
material concentrated in the period 1886-1954. Consisting primarily of diaries, correspondence,
printed matter, clippings, and speeches and writings, the collection focuses on Terrell's career as
an advocate of women's rights and equal treatment for African Americans. Born to a prosperous
Memphis family in 1863, the year of the Emancipation Proclamation, she witnessed the transition
from the systematic dismantling of black rights following Reconstruction to the early successes of
the civil rights movement after World War II. Her own life chartered a course that extended from
organizing the self-help programs promulgated by leaders such as Booker T. Washington to
directing sit-down strikes and boycotts in defiance of Jim Crow discrimination. She died in 1954,
several months after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision, having
herself waged several successful court battles in the fight against segregation in Washington, D.C.
The Terrell Papers reflect all phases of her public career. They show her as lecturer, as club woman,
as writer, and as political campaigner. Among the issues she addressed were lynching and peonage
conditions in the South, women's suffrage, the Equal Rights Amendment, the franchise for African
Americans, and the need for educational programs for blacks. She spoke and wrote frequently on
these matters, and the texts of most of her statements, whether brief introductory messages or
Mary Church Terrell Papers 5extended essays, are in the Speeches and Writings file. Examples of the range of her writings
include several reminiscences of Frederick Douglass, a dramatization of the life of Phillis Wheatley,
and numerous articles on African-American scientists, artists, and soldiers. Also in the collection
are copies of a feature column, “Up to Date,” which she wrote for the Chicago Defender, 1927-1929.
Terrell was an active proponent of unity among black women, a key example of which was her
instrumental role in forming the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 and serving as its
first president. Among the groups featured in the Correspondence series in the papers are the
National American Women Suffrage Association, the National Woman's Party, and the
International League for Peace and Freedom. Her Progressive Era involvement with moral and
educational issues is illustrated in records from the National and International Purity Conferences
she attended and in correspondence concerning her participation in programs on behalf of the
YWCA and the War Camp Community Service in World War I.. Documented in correspondence and
clippings files are her two terms on the District of Columbia School Board. As the first black woman
on the board, she was the recipient of revealing letters from school officials and others on the
problems of an urban, segregated school system.
The Subject File in the Terrell Papers is comprised mainly of printed matter. Exceptions include
holograph reports and drafts relating to the formative years of the National Association of Colored
Women and the interview and travel notes she kept while touring the South in 1919 in the employ
of the War Camp Community Service. Significant in her biographical and testimonial files are the
materials Terrell retained from the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. AntiDiscrimination Laws, the committee which successfully assaulted the color line in Washington,
D.C., movie houses and restaurants.
In her political philosophy, Terrell pursued a middle course between the gradualist approach
expressed by Booker T. Washington and the more aggressive stance of W. E. B. DuBois. “If we stay
out of every good thing because some narrow, mean, nasty people belong to them,” she wrote her
husband, Robert H. Terrell, in 1909, in reaction to critics who attacked her readiness to work within
regular political channels, “we shall develop into specimens as contemptible as these people are
and do no good besides.” She subsequently accepted supervisory positions in the presidential
campaigns of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, and in 1929-1930 was
invited by Ruth Hanna McCormick to direct her senatorial efforts among black voters in Illinois.
Evident in the papers also, however, is her outspoken criticism of racial segregation and her
willingness, ultimately, to picket businesses and established institutions in Washington when she
thought it necessary to achieve her goal.
Terrell's personal affairs and family relations form a relatively small part of the collection, but
correspondence with immediate family members is introspective and revealing, particularly letters
exchanged with her husband, a federally appointed judge whose papers are also in the Library of
Congress. Her letters to Robert give insight into the attitudes and private thoughts of a public figure
who was a wife and mother as well as a professional. Except for a diary or journal written in French
and German documenting her European tour of 1888-1890, Terrell kept diaries sporadically. A
fuller autobiographical source is the draft material to her published life story, A Colored Woman
in a White World.
Prominent correspondents include Jane Addams, Mary McLeod Bethune, Benjamin Griffth Brawley,
Nannie Helen Burroughs, Carrie Chapman Catt, Oscar DePriest, W. E. B. DuBois, Christian A.
Fleetwood, Francis Jackson Garrison, W. C. Handy, Ida Husted Harper, Addie W. Hunton, Maude
White Katz, Eugene Meyer, William L. Patterson, A. Phillip Randolph, Jeannette Rankin, Haile
Selassie, Annie Stein, Anson Phelps Stokes, William Monroe Trotter, Oswald Garrison Villard,
Booker T. Washington and Margaret James Murray Washington, H. G. Wells, and Carter Godwin
Woodson.
Terrell occasionally wrote drafts of articles on the reverse sides of correspondence, and these
letters are in the Speeches and Writings file. In selected instances, such letters have been copied
and placed in the Correspondence file.
Mary Church Terrell Papers 6Organization of the Papers
The collection is arranged in eight series:
• Diaries, 1888-1951
• Appointment Calenders and Address Book, 1904-1954
• Family Correspondence, 1890-1955
• Correspondence, 1886-1954
• Subject File, 1884-1962
• Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953
• Miscellany, 1851-1954
• Oversize, 1906
Mary Church Terrell Papers 7Description of Series
Container Series
BOX 1-2
REEL 1-2
Diaries, 1888-1951
Diaries written in French and German during Terrell's stay in Europe,
1888-1890, and later kept in English. Arranged chronologically.
BOX 2
REEL 2
Appointment Calenders and Address Book, 1904-1954
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically.
BOX 3
REEL 2-3
Family Correspondence, 1890-1955
Correspondence with family members.
Arranged alphabetically by first name of family member.
BOX 4-19
REEL 3-13
Correspondence, 1886-1954
Letters received, including numerous attachments, with some drafts or
copies of letters sent.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 20-27
REEL 13-20
Subject File, 1884-1962
Minutes, reports, notes, pamphlets, financial statements, news releases, and
miscellaneous printed and near-print material.
Arranged alphabetically by name of organization or subject.
BOX 27-38
REEL 20-28
Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953
Holograph and typescript copies of essays, speeches, articles, poems, and
short stories.
Arranged chronologically when dated and otherwise alphabetically by type
or title of material. Includes drafts of her autobiography, A Colored
Woman in a White World, and printed copies of some of her writings
arranged chronologically.
BOX 39-51
REEL 28-34
Miscellany, 1851-1954
Calling cards, greeting cards, programs, bound volumes, clippings, and
other printed matter.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX OV 1
REEL 31
Oversize, 1906
Oversize clipping.
Arranged and described according to the series, container, and folder from
which it was removed. Filmed in its original location.
Mary Church Terrell Papers 8Container List
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 16,926
Container Contents
BOX 1-2
REEL 1-2
Diaries, 1888-1951
Diaries written in French and German during Terrell's stay in Europe,
1888-1890, and later kept in English. Arranged chronologically.
BOX 1
REEL 1
1888-1890, tour of Europe
(3 vols.)
1920 (loose pages)
BOX 2
REEL 2
1929 (loose pages)
BOX 2
REEL 2
Appointment Calenders and Address Book, 1904-1954
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically.
BOX 2
REEL 2
Appointment calendars, 1904, 1951, 1954
Address book
BOX 3
REEL 2-3
Family Correspondence, 1890-1955
Correspondence with family members.
Arranged alphabetically by first name of family member.
BOX 3
REEL 2-3
Anna Wright Church (stepmother), 1913-1927
Annette Church (stepsister), 1915-1953
Billie Goines (son-in-law), 1918-1925
Dorothy Church (cousin), 1941-1954, undated
Laura Terrell Jones (sister-in-law), 1904-1941
Leon C. Tansil (son-in-law), 1923-1938, undated
Mary Terrell Tancil Geaudreau (daughter), 1914-1953, undated
Phyliss Terrell Goines Parks Langston (daughter), 1913-1952, undated
(2 folders)
Mary Church Terrell Papers 9BOX 3
REEL 2-3
Robert H. Terrell (husband), 1900-1922, undated
Thomas A. Church (brother), 1890-1935, undated
Thomas A. Church (nephew), 1935-1952, undated
Others, 1897-1955, undated
BOX 4-19
REEL 3-13
Correspondence, 1886-1954
Letters received, including numerous attachments, with some drafts or
copies of letters sent.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 4
REEL 3-4
1886-1913
(12 folders)
BOX 5
REEL 4
1914-1919
(12 folders)
BOX 6
REEL 5
1920-1923
(13 folders)
BOX 7
REEL 5-6
1924-1927
(10 folders)
BOX 8
REEL 6
1928, Sept.-1931
(12 folders)
BOX 9
REEL 7
1931, Oct.-1933
(14 folders)
BOX 10
REEL 7-8
1934-1936
(13 folders)
BOX 11
REEL 8
1937-1939
(12 folders)
BOX 12
REEL 8-9
1940-1941
(14 folders)
BOX 13
REEL 9
1942-1946
(15 folders)
BOX 14
REEL 10
1947-1949, June
(13 folders)
BOX 15
REEL 10-11
1949, July-1950
(17 folders)
Family Correspondence, 1890-1955
Container Contents
Mary Church Terrell Papers 10BOX 16
REEL 11
(12 folders)
BOX 17
REEL 11-12
(12 folders)
BOX 18
REEL 12
(13 folders)
BOX 19
REEL 12-13
(5 folders)
Undated, A-Y
(23 folders)
Unidentified
Fragments
BOX 20-27
REEL 13-20
Subject File, 1884-1962
Minutes, reports, notes, pamphlets, financial statements, news releases, and
miscellaneous printed and near-print material.
Arranged alphabetically by name of organization or subject.
BOX 20
REEL 13-14
Amenia Conference, Amenia, N.Y.,1916
American Association of University Women, 1946-1953
Americans for Democratic Action, 1947-1954
Anthony, Susan B., ceremonies in honor of, 1940-1941
Bethel Literary and Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 1895-1896
Civil liberties, 1948-1953
Colored Woman's League, annual reports, 1987-1898
Commission on Interracial Relations, minutes, Washington, D.C., 1953
Committee on Race Relations of the Washington Federation of Churches,
Washington., D.C., minutes and reports, 1930-1935
Conference on the Participation of Negro Women and Children in Federal
Welfare Programs, Washington, D.C., 1938
Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. AntiDiscrimination Laws, Washington, D.C., 1949-1954
Minutes, 1950-1954
Miscellaneous, 1949-1954
BOX 21
REEL 14
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, 1927-1943
Disabled soldiers, 1918-1919
District of Columbia School Board, 1894-1895, 1906, undated
Douglass (Frederick) Memorial and Historical Association, 1922-1950
Financial papers, including receipts, vouchers, and miscellany, 1917-1953
Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, 1922-1950 See
same container, Douglass
Highland Beach, Md., Board of Commissioners, 1928-1941, undated
Correspondence, 1886-1954
Container Contents
Mary Church Terrell Papers 11International Congress of Women, Washington, D.C., 1919
International Council of the Darker Races of the World
International Council of Women, 6th Quinquennial Convention, Washington,
D.C., 1925
BOX 22
REEL 15-16
International Slavery and Colonialism, 1888-1947, undated
(2 folders)
Inter-Racial Committee of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.,
1930-1941
Joint Committee for Civil Rights in D.C., Washington, D.C., financial records,
Joint Committee on Delinquency and Crime, Washington, D.C., notes on
meeting, 1927
Joint Committee on National Recovery, Washington, D.C., financial
statement, 1933-1934
Joint Committee on Race Relations of the Interracial Committee,
Washington, D.C., minutes and reports, 1932
League of Women Voters, D. C., Washington, D.C., newsletter, 1948-1954
Lincoln Congregational Temple, Washington, D.C., 1951
Lynching, 1922, undated
McCormick, Ruth Hanna, Illinois senatorial campaign, 1929-1930
National American Woman Suffrage Association, proceedings and reports,
1884, 1893-1905
(2 folders)
BOX 23
REEL 16-17
National and International Purity Congresses, 1905-1907, 1913, 1927,
undated
National Association of College Women, 1942, 1950-1951
National Association of Colored Women, 1897-1962
Holograph of program and constitution, 1897
Holograph report
1897 convention
1899 convention
1897 or 1899 conventions
Holograph reports and resolutions, 1900-1926, undated
Minutes, 1897, 1918-1939
(2 folders)
Miscellaneous
1900-1929
BOX 24
REEL 17-18
National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs,
1950-1952
Subject File, 1884-1962
Container Contents
Mary Church Terrell Papers 12National Committee to Free the Ingram Family, 1948-1954
National Congress of Colored Women, minutes, Nashville, Tenn., 1897
National Council of Negro Women, 1940-1953
National Council of Women, 1895-1901
National League of Women Shoppers, circa 1944-1947
National Memorial Association to Honor Negro Soldiers and Sailors, 1924,
1928, 1939
National Woman's Party, 1933-1953
(2 folders)
BOX 25
REEL 18
New York State Woman Suffrage Association, annual report, 1897
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1884-1953
Open Forum Speakers Bureau, 1916-1920
Opportunity House Board of Directors, minutes, 1925 [?]
Philadelphia Association for the Protection of Colored Women, Philadelphia,
Pa., 1912-1920
Phillis Wheatley Pageant, 1932-1933
Republican Party
Campaign of 1920
Campaign of 1928
Campaign of 1932
Miscellaneous, 1924-1940
Reviews of A Colored Woman in a White World, 1940-1944
Roundtable Conference on Building a Better Race Relations, Washington,
D.C., 1945
Second Mothers' Conference, minutes, Pinebluff, Ark., 1894
Second National Conference on Problems of the Negro and Negro youth,
Washington, D.C., 1939
Southern Conference for Human Welfare, Washington Committee,
1947-1948
Southwest Community House, Washington, D.C.,1948-1951
BOX 26
REEL 19
Terrell, Mary Church, biographical and testimonial file
(3 folders)
Third National Congress of Mothers, Washington, D.C., 1899
Trip to Europe, 1919
War Camp Community Service, 1918-1919
(2 folders)
Washington Fellowship, newsletter, Washington, D.C., 1947-1952
Washington Interracial Workshop, Washington, D.C., 1952
Woman's Centennial Congress, New York, N.Y., 1940
BOX 27
REEL 20
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1919-1921, undated
Women's Joint Legislative Committee for Equal Rights, minutes, 1946-1947
World Fellowship of Faiths and World Fellowship, Inc., 1933-1938
Subject File, 1884-1962
Container Contents
Mary Church Terrell Papers 13Miscellaneous
(2 folders)
BOX 27-38
REEL 20-28
Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953
Holograph and typescript copies of essays, speeches, articles, poems, and
short stories.
Arranged chronologically when dated and otherwise alphabetically by type
or title of material. Includes drafts of her autobiography, A Colored
Woman in a White World, and printed copies of some of her writings
arranged chronologically.
BOX 27
REEL 20
circa 1876
circa 1880-1884
(2 folders)
BOX 28
REEL 20-21
(2 folders)
1891-1904
(8 folders)
BOX 29
REEL 21
1904-1925
(53 folders)
BOX 30
REEL 21-22
1925-1936
(49 folders)
BOX 31
REEL 22
1936-1951
(61 folders)
BOX 32
REEL 23-24
1951-1953
(12 folders)
Undated
A-Hea
(37 folders)
BOX 33 Hec-V
(48 folders)
BOX 34
REEL 24
W-Z and miscellaneous
Fragments
(15 folders)
BOX 35
REEL 24-25
A Colored Woman in a White World, drafts
(6 folders)
BOX 36
REEL 25-26
(9 folders)
BOX 37
REEL 26
(8 folders)
Printed writings
Subject File, 1884-1962
Container Contents
Mary Church Terrell Papers 141888-1904
(2 folders)
BOX 38
REEL 27-28
1905-1953, undated
(7 folders)
Speeches by others, 1901-1952
BOX 39-51
REEL 28-34
Miscellany, 1851-1954
Calling cards, greeting cards, programs, bound volumes, clippings, and
other printed matter.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 39
REEL 28
Printed matter
Book lists, 1941-1946, undated
Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich., menus, 1942
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1911-1913
Calling cards and membership cards, 1900-1953, undated
China Aid News, 1940
Equal Rights, 1936-1947
Greeting cards
1925-1953, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 40
REEL 28-29
1938-1953, undated
(3 folders)
Interracial News Service, 1936, 1940-1941
Invitations and announcements, 1891-1954, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 41
REEL 29
Lecture notices, 1905-1938, undated
National Association Notes, 1897-1902, 1904
National Notes, 1923-1953
(4 folders)
Oberlin Review, 1883-1884
Programs
1884-1909
(2 folders)
BOX 42
REEL 29-30
1911-1954, undated
(7 folders)
BOX 43
REEL 30
Who's who notices, 1927-1945, undated
Woman's Era, 1894-1896
(3 folders)
General
1851-1929
(4 folders)
Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953
Container Contents
Mary Church Terrell Papers 15BOX 44
REEL 30
1930-1953, undated
(5 folders)
Bound publications, 1904, 1913, 1916
BOX 45
REEL 31
Clippings
American Association of University Women, 1946-1950
Bound press notices, 1902-1909
(3 folders)
BOX 46
REEL 31
Brownsville, Tex., incident, 1906 See Oversize
Cardozo case, 1906-1907
Crimes of whites, 1905-1906
Lynching, 1906
McCormick, Ruth Hanna, campaign for Senate from Illinois, 1929-1930
National Association of Colored Women, 1899-1901
National Association of Colored Women, 1906 Convention
Negro history and achievement, 1900-1954
Press notices of articles and speeches, 1906-1907
Press notices of speeches by others on the Negro question, 1905-1906
BOX 47
REEL 32
Rights of women, 1893-1952
“Startling claims and facts,” 1906
Terrell, Robert H., 1914-1950
Trip to Berlin, Germany,1904
Washington, D.C., Board of Education, 1906-1907
Miscellaneous
(3 folders)
BOX 48
REEL 32-33
(7 folders)
BOX 49
REEL 33
(5 folders)
BOX 50
REEL 34
(6 folders)
BOX 51
REEL 34
Memorabilia
Passport, identity book, and honorary doctorate, 1919, 1948
Certificates and awards, 1891-1954
BOX OV 1
REEL 31
Oversize, 1906
Oversize clipping.
Arranged and described according to the series, container, and folder from
which it was removed. Filmed in its original location.
BOX OV 1
REEL 31
Speeches and writings
Clippings
Brownsville, Tex., incident, 1906 (Container 46, Reel 31)
Miscellany, 1851-1954
Container Contents
Mary Church Terrell Papers 16
She gets really tired most of the time and can’t go for anymore walks with me so I sit with her and hold her hand while she tells me some AMAZING stories about women she knew in her life. I don’t understand how because some of them were pretend and some of them died before she was born. I think she means she knew them from books. She loves books and so do I. She even loves when I write stories and put them in books for her to read.
