Mary Church Terrell
African American educator and activist
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- Bachelors Classical Languages Oberlin College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mary Church Terrell was an American civil rights activist, journalist, teacher and one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She taught in the Latin Department at the M Street School —the first African American public high school in the nation—in Washington, DC. In 1895, she was the first African-American woman in the United States to be appointed to the school board of a major city, serving in the District of Columbia until 1906. Terrell was a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Colored Women's League of Washington . She helped found the National Association of Colored Women and served as its first national president, and she was a founding member of the National Association of College Women .
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