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2 unusual facts about Mary Church Terrell


Civil Rights Congress

The Ingram campaign was orchestrated by the Women's Committee for Equal Justice, a CRC subdivision led Mary Church Terrell.

LeDroit Park

Mary Church Terrell – Heiress and activist for civil rights and woman’s suffrage.


Carrie Williams Clifford

Clifford's and her family moved to Washington D.C. around 1910, where she maintained friendships with W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Alain Locke, and hosted regular Sunday evening gatherings with persons such as Mary Church Terrell, William L. Hunt, Amanda Hilyer, Harry T. Burleigh, and Will Marion Cook.

National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center

Their efforts paid off in 1929, when President Herbert Hoover appointed Mary Church Terrell, Mary McLeod Bethune, and 10 others to a commission charged with building a "National Memorial Building" showcasing African American achievements in the arts and sciences.


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