Mary Church Terrell Papers

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Documents in this collection

Jane Addams to Mary Church Terrell, March 29, 1921

Addams agrees with Terrell's objection to calling for the removal of black French troops in Germany and invites her to attend the local meeting where the issue is on the agenda.

African-Americans, Military, Racism

Mary Church Terrell to Jane Addams, March 18, 1921

Terrell tells Addams that she cannot sign a petition calling for the removal of African-American soldiers from Germany on accusations of abuse of women. Terrell believes that it is race prejudice.

African-Americans, Crime, Military, Women, World War I

Description

Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, clippings, printed material, and other papers focusing primarily on Terrell's career as an advocate of women's rights and equal treatment for African Americans. Subjects include women's suffrage; Equal Rights Amendment; education and suffrage for African Americans; desegregation in the District of Columbia; lynching and peonage conditions in the South; progressivism; the campaigns of Presidents Calvin Coolidge, Warren G. Harding, and Herbert Hoover; the Illinois senatorial campaign of Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms; and family affairs. Documents her work with the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws, International Purity Conference, National American Woman Suffrage Association, National Association of Colored Women, National Purity Conference, National Woman's Party, War Camp Community Service, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Young Women's Christian Association. Includes a manuscript of Terrell's autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World (1940).

Rights

Cleared

Source

Finding Aid http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2009/ms009311.pdf

Alternative Title

Mary Church Terrell Papers