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Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) broke barrier after barrier in her long campaign for civil rights.

She was born Mary Church and married Robert Terrell. She was one of the first college educated black women and graduated from Oberlin College.

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She was appointed to the District of Columbia school board in 1895 and was the first black woman in the United States to hold such a position.

Terrell was the first president of the National Association of Colored Women, a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and helped organize Delta Sigma Theta.

She was an active women’s suffrage advocate and a leader of the fight against lynching.

She also was a leader of the Committee for Equal Justice that campaigned to bring charges against the white men who raped an African American woman, Recy Taylor, in Alabama in 1944.

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