Mary Church Terrell

Mary "Mollie" Eliza Church Terrell (born Mary Church; September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, teacher, and suffragist. She was one of the first African American women to earn a college degree. Terrell taught in Washington, D.C., in the Latin Department at the M Street School, now known as Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, the nation's first African American public high school in the nation. From 1895 to 1906, she served on the District of Columbia school board; she was the first African-American woman to be appointed to the school board of a major city. Terrell was a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909) and the Colored Women's League of Washington (1892). She helped found the National Association of Colored Women (1896) and served as its first national president, and she was a founding member of the National Association of College Women (1923).

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