Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was a forceful leader in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the movements for civil rights, women's rights, and world peace. As Nellie Y. McKay states in her introduction to Terrell's 1940 autobiography, she was a "quintessential race woman who fully met W. E. B. Du Bois's standards for the Talented Tenth, as well as those of the black club women's 'lifting as we climb' ideal." A fascinating and highly readable memoir, A Colored Woman in a White World documents Terrell's ...
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Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was a forceful leader in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the movements for civil rights, women's rights, and world peace. As Nellie Y. McKay states in her introduction to Terrell's 1940 autobiography, she was a "quintessential race woman who fully met W. E. B. Du Bois's standards for the Talented Tenth, as well as those of the black club women's 'lifting as we climb' ideal." A fascinating and highly readable memoir, A Colored Woman in a White World documents Terrell's childhood, education, and her very significant contributions to social reform in the United States.
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Publisher:
National Association of Colored Women's Clubs
Published:
1968
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17755757087
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Frontis (portrait), index, (16), 454p. Red cloth. dj (price-clipped). 22 cm. Jacket has some edge-wear and chipping. Extremities rubbed on cover. Preface by H. G. Wells. Reprint of the 1940 edition, with the addition of two chapters, written by Marvin Caplin (with the last of those chapters edited by Dorothy Swift), for this 1968 edition, giving brief accounts of Terrell's final 14 years and the AAUW struggle to get old, never repealed but long ignored, District of Columbia ordinances requiring businesses of public accomodation to serve any respectable, well-behaved person without regard to race or color at the same prices and in the same rooms available to all customers.