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Mary Church Terrell è stata un'attivista e giornalista statunitense.

È stata una delle prime donne afroamericane a conseguire una laurea universitaria e divenne nota come attivista per i diritti civili e il suffragio. Insegnò al dipartimento di latino della scuola M Street , la prima scuola superiore pubblica afroamericana della nazione, a Washington. Nel 1896 fu la prima donna afroamericana negli Stati Uniti ad essere nominata nel consiglio scolastico di una grande città, prestando servizio nel Distretto di Columbia fino al 1906. Terrell fu un membro fondatore della National Association for the Advancement of Colored People e della Colored Women's League di Washington . Contribuì a fondare l'Associazione Nazionale delle Donne di Colore e ne fu il primo presidente; inoltre fu membro fondatore della National Association of College Women . Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Settembre 1863 – 24. Luglio 1954
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Mary Church Terrell: Frasi in inglese

“By a miracle the 19th amendment has been ratified, we women now have a weapon of defense ... it will be a shame to us if we do not use it … we shall give our enemies a stick with which to break our head, Hold meetings, every time you meet a woman talk to her about going to the polls and vote!”

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Origine: p.310

“What a fine thing it would be if the North were as loyal to what it claims to be its principles as the South to its views?”

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Origine: p. 290

“Colored people so seldom tell certain truths about conditions which confront their race that when they do, even white people who are interested in them feel that they must be “bitter.””

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p.175

“In the early 1890’s it required a great deal of courage for a woman to publicly to acknowledge before an audience that she believed in suffrage for her sex when she knew a majority did not.”

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Origine: p.144

“I arose and said, As a colored woman, I hope this association will include in the resolution the injustices of various kinds of which colored people are the victims.”

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p. 143