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 4E 123 - Mary Church Terrell - Memphis, TN Posted by:  Lat34North
N 35° 08.341 W 090° 02.853
15S E 768999 N 3892450
Located at the Robert Church Park on Beale St, Memphis, TN. There are several historic markers locate here.
Waymark Code: WMT59M
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 09/28/2016
Views: 3
The plaque reads:
Mary Church Terrell
1863 - 1954
Born in Memphis in 1863, Mary Church Terrell was noted as a champion of human rights. The daughter of millionaire Robert Church, Sr., she was graduated from Oberlin College in 1884 and later made her home in Washington, D.C. In 1904, she was a delegate to the International Council of Women in Berlin, where she was the only woman to address the group in French, German and English. A 1909 charter member of the N.A.A.C.P., she was an active worker for women’s suffrage and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, in the 1950s she lead marches to desegregate restaurants in Washington, D.C. She authored A Colored Woman in a White World.
Tennessee Historical Commission
Marker Name: Mary Church Terrell 1863 - 1954
Marker Location: City
Type of Marker: Person
Marker Number: 4E 123
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker:
Tennessee Historical Commission
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