Happy Birthday Suffragette Mary Church Terrell
🎂Mary Church Terrell (Aka Mary Eliza Church; born September 23, 1863) was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree She became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage. She taught in the Latin Department at the M Street school (now known as Paul Laurence Dunbar High School) — the first African-American public high school in the nation — in Washington, DC. #activist #civilrights #suffrage National Archives at College Park, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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