Mary Church Terrell was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage.

• Foreword, Debra Newman HamIntroductionMy ParentsEarly ChildhoodI am Sent North to SchoolMy Parents Send Me to Oberlin, OhioI Enter Oberlin CollegeActivities During College CourseI Go to Memphis, Teach Wilberforce and Washington and Go AbroadI Study in GermanyIn Europe with Mother and BrotherI Leave Berlin and Go to FlorenceI Return to the United StatesWith Frederick Douglass and Paul Dunbar at the World’s FairBuying a Home Under DifficultiesLearning to Cook and Entertaining GuestsThe Commissioners of the National Capital Appoint Me a Member of the School BoardThe National American Woman Suffrage Association Invites Me to SpeakClub WorkOn the Lecture PlatformNotable Lecture EngagementsPrince Henry of Prussia, Dr. Brooker T. WashingtonIn Berlin, GermanyDistinguished People I Met AbroadMy Efforts to Succeed as a WriterMy Children and IMy Experience as a Clerk in a Government DepartmentEfforts in Senate to Prevent Judge Terrell’s ConfirmationThe Secretary of War Suspends Order Dismissing Colored Soldiers at My RequestHarriet Beecher Stowe Centenary and My Sally into SpiritualismTrying to Get a Colored Girl into an Academy in the North Traveling Under DifficultiesPolitical Activities—Charged with Disorderly Conduct Work in War Camp Community Service Delegate to the International Peace CongressMeeting Old Friends and New—Plus a Dose of Race Prejudice Administered by My CountrymenA Week-end Visit with Mr. and Mrs. H. G.Wells—I Meet Other Distinguished People in EnglandEmployed by Ruth Hanna McCormick to Help in Her Campaign for the United States Senate. Abroad with My DaughterA Few Cases of Friction Crossing the Color LineThe Colored Man’s ParadiseSocial ActivitiesI Address the International Assembly of the World Fellowship of Faiths in London and Meet Haile Selassie Carrying On Index

A rich life, full of unforgettable moments, this memoir reflects on the long life of Mary Church Terrell, an accomplished educator and activist who witnessed the momentous events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As the first president of the National Association of Colored Women, Terrell’s voice carried significant weight. This book offers a down-to-earth account of her long life in the United States during periods of major political struggles and social transformations, including arenas such as formal education, European culture in the 1890s, and American race politics. Terrell’s views and statements yield original ideas on women’s suffrage and civil rights, access to education, and struggles for Black emancipation. This is a crucial and necessary text to complement our expanding recovery and understanding of the role of key black women leaders and the movements of which they were a part.

Mary Church Terrell was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage.

• Foreword, Debra Newman HamIntroductionMy ParentsEarly ChildhoodI am Sent North to SchoolMy Parents Send Me to Oberlin, OhioI Enter Oberlin CollegeActivities During College CourseI Go to Memphis, Teach Wilberforce and Washington and Go AbroadI Study in GermanyIn Europe with Mother and BrotherI Leave Berlin and Go to FlorenceI Return to the United StatesWith Frederick Douglass and Paul Dunbar at the World’s FairBuying a Home Under DifficultiesLearning to Cook and Entertaining GuestsThe Commissioners of the National Capital Appoint Me a Member of the School BoardThe National American Woman Suffrage Association Invites Me to SpeakClub WorkOn the Lecture PlatformNotable Lecture EngagementsPrince Henry of Prussia, Dr. Brooker T. WashingtonIn Berlin, GermanyDistinguished People I Met AbroadMy Efforts to Succeed as a WriterMy Children and IMy Experience as a Clerk in a Government DepartmentEfforts in Senate to Prevent Judge Terrell’s ConfirmationThe Secretary of War Suspends Order Dismissing Colored Soldiers at My RequestHarriet Beecher Stowe Centenary and My Sally into SpiritualismTrying to Get a Colored Girl into an Academy in the North Traveling Under DifficultiesPolitical Activities—Charged with Disorderly Conduct Work in War Camp Community Service Delegate to the International Peace CongressMeeting Old Friends and New—Plus a Dose of Race Prejudice Administered by My CountrymenA Week-end Visit with Mr. and Mrs. H. G.Wells—I Meet Other Distinguished People in EnglandEmployed by Ruth Hanna McCormick to Help in Her Campaign for the United States Senate. Abroad with My DaughterA Few Cases of Friction Crossing the Color LineThe Colored Man’s ParadiseSocial ActivitiesI Address the International Assembly of the World Fellowship of Faiths in London and Meet Haile Selassie Carrying On Index

A rich life, full of unforgettable moments, this memoir reflects on the long life of Mary Church Terrell, an accomplished educator and activist who witnessed the momentous events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As the first president of the National Association of Colored Women, Terrell’s voice carried significant weight. This book offers a down-to-earth account of her long life in the United States during periods of major political struggles and social transformations, including arenas such as formal education, European culture in the 1890s, and American race politics. Terrell’s views and statements yield original ideas on women’s suffrage and civil rights, access to education, and struggles for Black emancipation. This is a crucial and necessary text to complement our expanding recovery and understanding of the role of key black women leaders and the movements of which they were a part.

Mary Church Terrell was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage.

• Foreword, Debra Newman HamIntroductionMy ParentsEarly ChildhoodI am Sent North to SchoolMy Parents Send Me to Oberlin, OhioI Enter Oberlin CollegeActivities During College CourseI Go to Memphis, Teach Wilberforce and Washington and Go AbroadI Study in GermanyIn Europe with Mother and BrotherI Leave Berlin and Go to FlorenceI Return to the United StatesWith Frederick Douglass and Paul Dunbar at the World’s FairBuying a Home Under DifficultiesLearning to Cook and Entertaining GuestsThe Commissioners of the National Capital Appoint Me a Member of the School BoardThe National American Woman Suffrage Association Invites Me to SpeakClub WorkOn the Lecture PlatformNotable Lecture EngagementsPrince Henry of Prussia, Dr. Brooker T. WashingtonIn Berlin, GermanyDistinguished People I Met AbroadMy Efforts to Succeed as a WriterMy Children and IMy Experience as a Clerk in a Government DepartmentEfforts in Senate to Prevent Judge Terrell’s ConfirmationThe Secretary of War Suspends Order Dismissing Colored Soldiers at My RequestHarriet Beecher Stowe Centenary and My Sally into SpiritualismTrying to Get a Colored Girl into an Academy in the North Traveling Under DifficultiesPolitical Activities—Charged with Disorderly Conduct Work in War Camp Community Service Delegate to the International Peace CongressMeeting Old Friends and New—Plus a Dose of Race Prejudice Administered by My CountrymenA Week-end Visit with Mr. and Mrs. H. G.Wells—I Meet Other Distinguished People in EnglandEmployed by Ruth Hanna McCormick to Help in Her Campaign for the United States Senate. Abroad with My DaughterA Few Cases of Friction Crossing the Color LineThe Colored Man’s ParadiseSocial ActivitiesI Address the International Assembly of the World Fellowship of Faiths in London and Meet Haile Selassie Carrying On Index

A rich life, full of unforgettable moments, this memoir reflects on the long life of Mary Church Terrell, an accomplished educator and activist who witnessed the momentous events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As the first president of the National Association of Colored Women, Terrell’s voice carried significant weight. This book offers a down-to-earth account of her long life in the United States during periods of major political struggles and social transformations, including arenas such as formal education, European culture in the 1890s, and American race politics. Terrell’s views and statements yield original ideas on women’s suffrage and civil rights, access to education, and struggles for Black emancipation. This is a crucial and necessary text to complement our expanding recovery and understanding of the role of key black women leaders and the movements of which they were a part.