How did Mary church Terrell help with the cicil rights movement?

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i just wanna know how she helped in the cicil rights movement and thats it

Answer 1

Mary Church Terrell, a child of color, was born in 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee.  The very same year, the Emancipation Proclamation was established.  She grew up in Ohio, and after completing primary and secondary education, she went on to college and then studied in Europe for two years and learned to speak Italian, German and French.  Oberlin College would later give her an honorary Doctorate of Human Letters in 1948.

After college she returned to Memphis with her father, who was a prominent business man.  She went on to marry in 1891, to Robert Heberton Terrell; who went on to be a judge in the District of Columbia.  

Making their home there in Washington, they also built a home in Maryland that would make them neighbors to Frederick Douglass.  Upon their meeting, she became an active member in the feminist movement. Then in 1892, she founded a women's club, the Colored Woman's League.  

In 1896, the Colored Woman's League bonded with the National Federation of Afro-American Women and changed the name to the National Federation of Colored Women. Mary Church Terrell was elected the first president.

Mary Church Terrell became a popular speaker and writer on the subject of segregation and denounced it on a regular basis.  

Overall, Mary Church Terrell was involved in the international women's movement on three occasions. She was the representative for colored women on the American Delegation to the International Congress of Women at Berlin in 1904.  During this conference, she was the only women to deliver her address in French, English, and German.  Her topic was on equal rights for women and Negroes regardless of where they were at.  

In 1919, Mary Church Terrell received international recognition as a speaker on the program at the Quinquennial International Peace Conference in Zürich.  And then in 1937, she spoke before the International Assembly of the World Fellowship of Faith in London.

Mary Church Terrell wrote her autobiography, A Colored Woman In A White World in 1940.

Mary Church Terrell led the picket line at age 89, carrying her sign to embody Kresge's store and Thompson's restaurant with members of the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the District of Columbia Anti-Discrimination Laws.

She died at age 90 after a brief illness in Maryland in 1954.