How did Mary church Terrell help with the cicil rights movement?
Mary Church Terrell, a child of color, was born in 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee. The very same year, the Emancipation Proclamation was established. She grew up in Ohio, and after completing primary and secondary education, she went on to college and then studied in Europe for two years and learned to speak Italian, German and French. Oberlin College would later give her an honorary Doctorate of Human Letters in 1948. After college she returned to Memphis with her father, who was a prominent business man. She went on to marry in 1891, to Robert Heberton Terrell; who went on to be a judge in the District of Columbia. Making their home there in Washington, they also built a home in Maryland that would make them neighbors to Frederick Douglass. Upon their meeting, she became an active member in the feminist movement. Then in 1892, she founded a women’s club, the Colored Woman’s League. In 1896, the Colored Woman’s League bonded with the National Federation of Afro-American Women and changed
