Mary Church Terrell, shown in this c. 1885 photograph, co-founded the NAACP, led the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs when it endorsed the Anthony Amendment in 1912, and joined the silent sentinels protesting for women’s suffrage outside the Wilson White House. Through her Chicago-based Alpha Suffrage Club she organized Black women voters for Hughes in 1916, and as director of the RNC’s outreach to Black women she delivered speeches up and down the Atlantic coast for Harding in 1920.
Source photograph: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1855
Mary Church Terrell, shown in this c. 1885 photograph, co-founded the NAACP, led the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs when it endorsed the Anthony Amendment in 1912, and joined the silent sentinels protesting for women’s suffrage outside the Wilson White House. Through her Chicago-based Alpha Suffrage Club she organized Black women voters for Hughes in 1916, and as director of the RNC’s outreach to Black women she delivered speeches up and down the Atlantic coast for Harding in 1920.
Source photograph: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1855