Mary B. Talbert
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Mary Talbert was a civil rights activist who lived most of her life in Buffalo.
Waymark Code: WMENY
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/11/2006
Views: 51
Helped found Niagara Mov't, forerunner of NAACP, chaired US anti-lynching committee, delegate to 1920 Internat'l Council of Women. 1866-1923
More information from a Buffalo News article 2/28/00:
"She helped to plant the seeds for the NAACP. Frederick Douglass and W.E.B DuBois sat at her dining room table. She fought for women's rights a half-century before Betty Friedan untied her apron strings. She railed against colonialism in Africa, had an audience with the queen of England and pressured Woodrow Wilson to sign a federal anti-lynching law (he didn't). She blasted segregation 50 years before Jim Crow came tumbling down. She was the first woman to get a doctorate from the University of Buffalo. She was a preservationist who saved Douglass' home in Washington, D.C. Some experts put her up with Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth as a civil rights activist."
Marker Name: Mary B. Talbert
Marker Type: Roadside
Agency: George E. Patacki, Governor
Dedication Date: -9223372036854775808
City/Town/Village Name: Buffalo
County: Erie
Region: Niagara Frontier (Region 2)
Website: [Web Link]
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