“You Can’t Keep Her Out”: Mary Church Terrell’s Fight for Equality in America

“You Can’t Keep Her Out”: Mary Church Terrell’s Fight for Equality in America

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This student project explores Mary Church Terrell’s fraught relationship to Oberlin and larger commitment to justice for black women. Terrell, an 1884 graduate of Oberlin, was the founding president of the National Association of Colored Women and founder of the College Alumnae Council. She was also a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Women’s Committee for Equal Justice, the Civil Rights Congress, and the Women’s Republican League of Washington, D.C.

Oberlin College Archives

1911-1949