Mary Church Terrell Mural
by Cora Wandel
Title
Mary Church Terrell Mural
Artist
Cora Wandel
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Photograph
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This mural honors the life and social activism of Mary Church Terrell, the first black woman to graduate from college in the United States. As an African-American woman, a lot of her activism dealt with the civil rights of her race, and also the rights of women and girls of every race. Terrell was very active in the women's suffrage movement of the early 1900s and one campaign button from that era stating "Vote for Woman Suffrage Nov. 6th" is painted on the mural. (This is a reference to the pivotal election of November 6, 1917 when women in the state of New York won the right to vote, which began a cascading effect of women winning the right in other states and ultimately led to the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 that guaranteed the right for all women to vote in the United States.) Terrell's long list of activities and achievements includes being a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909, a founder and first president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) in 1896. Trained as an educator, Terrell spent years as a school teacher and principal in Washington, DC, and in 1895 was appointed to the District of Columbia Board of Education, the first black woman to hold such a position in the United States. In 1940, Terrell’s best selling autobiography"“A Colored Woman in a White World" was published. Terrell and her husband, Robert Heberton Terrell (the first black municipal court judge in the District of Columbia) lived in the LeDroit Park neighborhood of Washington, a few blocks from this mural, which can be found on the alley side of a house at 73 Florida Avenue.
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October 28th, 2017
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