Mary Church Terrell Mural Canvas Print

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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 firs...

I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...