Mary Church Terrell
COLORED WOMEN have always had high aspirations for themselves and their race. From the day when shackles fell from their fettered limbs till today, as individuals they have often struggled single handed and alone against the most desperate and discouraging odds.
But it dawned upon them finally that individuals working alone would accomplish little compared with the possible achievements of many individuals, banded strongly together throughout the entire land, with heads and hearts fixed on the same purpose.
Mary Church Terrell’s portraits are at the Smithsonian. They will be used to tell her story and other women’s stories about the struggle for equal rights.
Credits
Photo: Scurlock Studio Records, Mary Church Terrell, ca. 1935 –1940. Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Content: Mary Church Terrell, A Colored Women in a White World, unpublished manuscript, ca. 1940, Library of Congress
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Photo of Gladys Bentley
Credits
Unidentified, Gladys Bentley,1927-1945. Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
19th Amendment at 100: Sharing the Story
Credits
Suffragists demonstrating against Woodrow Wilson in Chicago. Chicago Illinois United States, 1916. Photograph.
