Mary Church Terrell Papers

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

Alternative Title

Mary Church Terrell Papers

Documents in this collection

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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.

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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.

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Addams thanks Terrell for agreeing to be one of the delegates of the International Committee.

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Addams tells Church that she is unable to lecture for her, but will suggest others.