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Compiled by Angela McMillian, Digital Reference Specialist
The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain
a wide variety of material associated with Mary Church Terrell,
including manuscripts, photographs, and books.
This guide compiles links to digital materials related
to Mary Church Terrell that are available throughout the
Library of Congress Web site. In addition, it provides links
to external Web sites focusing on Mary Church Terrell and
a bibliography containing selected works for both general
and younger readers.
Library of Congress Web Site | External
Web Sites | Selected Bibliography
The African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
This selection of manuscript and printed text and images illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920, a story of slavery and freedom, segregation and integration, religion and politics, migrations and restrictions, harmony and discord, and struggles and successes.
African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
The collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummell, and Emanuel Love. The special presentation Progress of a People includes a biography of Mary Church Terrell.
- The Progress of Colored Women / by Mary Church Terrell ...
["An address delivered before the National American Women's Suffrage Association at the Columbia Theater, Washington, D.C., February 18, 1898, on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary."]
American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States
The site contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001). This site includes five different drafts of portions of Terrell's autobiography A Colored Woman in a White World.
Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies.
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
A selection of 38 pictures including portraits of many individuals, photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement.
The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
This compilation of printed texts traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. A sketch of Mary Church Terrell's life is included in the book Women of Achievement: Written for the Fireside Schools Under the Auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society by Benjamin Griffith Brawley.
Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
The Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks are a part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Browse the subject index to locate four items pertaining to Mary Church Terrell.
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
This collection assembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in this transition. Mary Church Terrell is included in the special presentation "Guide to People, Organizations, and Topics in Prosperity and Thrift."
- Calvin Coolidge Papers. Mary Church Terrell, 1924-25.
[Letters from and to Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), a noted African American educator, author, and early civil rights proponent, regarding her request to the White House to be appointed head of a "colored women's section" in either the Women's Bureau or the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor during President Coolidge's administration.]
Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
This digital collection presents 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and talent circulars for some 4,546 performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit.
- Mary Church Terrell. [Flyer which includes biographical information and an image of Mary Church Terrell].
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938.
America's Library is especially designed for elementary and middle school students.
Jump Back in Time
Activist Mary Church Terrell Was Born,
September 23, 1863
African-American
Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
This exhibition showcases the incomparable African American
collections of the Library of Congress. It displays more
than 240 items, including books, government documents,
manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings.
It includes the report What the National Association [of Colored Women] Has Meant to Colored Women by Mary Church Terrell.
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
American Treasures of the Library of Congress is an unprecedented exhibition of the rarest, most interesting or significant items relating to America's past, drawn from every corner of the world's largest library. The exhibition includes the draft pages of A Colored Woman in a White World.
France In America
Conceived in partnership with France’s national library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, France in America /France en Amérique is a bilingual digital library made available by the Library of Congress. It explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.
Manuscript
Division Finding Aids Online
Access the finding aid for the papers of Mary Church Terrell in the Library of Congress Manuscript
Division.
The NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
This exhibition presents a retrospective of the major personalities, events, and achievements that shaped the NAACP’s history during its first 100 years. Currently, the site highlights 70 treasures and will eventually expand to feature more than 150 items. The prelude of the exhibition includes a letter from Mary Church Terrell concerning the Brownsville Affair.
Images of Twentieth Century African American Activists: A Select List
This list includes images of individuals frequently requested by researchers for which staff have been able to find acceptable quality images in the Prints and Photographs Division collections. Mary Church Terrell is included in this list.
Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)
Search in PPOC on Mary Church Terrell or use the subject heading "Terrell, Mary Church,--1863-1954" to find digital images related
to Terrell.
African
American History Month Portal
In celebration of African-American History Month, this
Web site highlights the many resources on African-American
history and culture available from the extensive online
collections of the Library of Congress.
Features and Activities
From
Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American
History
Use this interactive timeline-based activity to introduce
the topic of African-American history through primary
sources.
Lesson Plans
African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings
Students examine the tension experienced by African-Americans as they struggled to establish a vibrant and meaningful identity based on the promises of liberty and equality in the midst of a society that was ambivalent towards them and sought to impose an inferior definition upon them.
Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
Students explore the era of legalized segregation. This
lesson provides a foundation for a more meaningful understanding
of the modern Civil Rights movement.
September 23
Mary Church Terrell—educator, political activist, and first president of the National Association of Colored Women—was born on September 23, 1863, in Memphis, Tennessee. An 1884 graduate of Oberlin College, America's first college to admit women and amongst the first to admit students of all races, Terrell was one of the first American women of African descent to graduate from college. She earned her master's degree from Oberlin in 1888.
Web Guides produced by the Digital Reference Section
of the Library of Congress
African-American
Sites in the Digital Collections
This guide highlights contributions by African Americans
to the arts, education, industry, literature, politics
and much more as represented in the vast online collections
of the Library. Mary Church Terrell is included in the Civil War and Reconstruction section.
Civil
Rights Resource Guide
This guide compiles links to civil rights resources
throughout the Library of Congress Web site and beyond.
Documenting the American South, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. The collection includes several items that pertain to Mary Church Terrell.
Robert and Mary Church Terrell House & LeDroit Park Museum and Cultural Center
TLC, a non-profit organization, was formed in 2003. It serves a diverse community as the premiere Washington, D.C., institution for the study and preservation of the Terrell Family legacy, while also promoting an appreciation for LeDroit Park and its contribution to the African American experience.
Ham, Deborah N., ed. A Colored Woman in a White World. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2005.
LC Call Number: E185.97.T47 A3 2005 [Catalog Record]
Terrell, Mary Church. Harriet Beecher Stowe; an Appreciation. N.P., 1911.
LC Call Number: PS2956 .T4 [Catalog Record]
---. Phillis Wheatley, a Bicentennial Pageant. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932.
LC Call Number: PN3206 .T4 [Catalog Record]
Cooke, Paul P. Mary Church Terrell: A Tribute. Washington, DC: Cooke, 1978.
LC Call Number: LD7501.W317 T473 [Catalog Record]
Fradin, Dennis B. Fight On!: Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration. New York: Clarion Books, 2003.
LC Call Number: E185.97.T47 F73 2003 [Catalog Record]
Jones, Beverly Washington. Quest for Equality: The Life and Writings of Mary Eliza Church Terrell, 1863-1954. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson, 1990.
LC Call Number: E185.86 .B543 1990 vol. 13 [Catalog Record]
Shepperd, Gladys Byram. Mary Church Terrell, Respectable Person. Baltimore: Human Relations Press, 1959.
LC Call Number: E185.97.T47 S48 [Catalog Record]
Lommel, Cookie. Mary Church Terrell: Speaking Out for Civil Rights. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2003.
LC Call Number: E185.97.T47 L66 2003 [Catalog Record]
McKissack, Pat. Mary Church Terrell: Leader for Equality. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2002.
LC Call Number: E185.97.T47 M35 2002 [Catalog Record]
Swain, Gwenyth. Civil Rights Pioneer: A Story about Mary Church Terrell. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1999.
LC Call Number: E185.97.T47 S93 1999 [Catalog Record]
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