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[whenweallvote]

Happy heavenly birthday to activist and educator Mary Church Terrell. 🕊️

Terrell fought for racial equality and women’s suffrage throughout her life. She co-founded the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 and the NAACP in 1909. 

Terrell also fought against segregated dining in the U.S. until the Supreme Court ruled the practice unconstitutional in 1953 — just four years before her passing.

Today, we thank Mrs. Terrell for her courage and honor her lifelong dedication to justice.

[petervintonjr]

Let us not forget abolitionist writer and author Frances E. W. Harper, the very first Black woman to be published in the U.S. Find out more about her extraordinary journey at: https://www.petervintonjr.com/blm/lesson41.html

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[profeminist]

“Today in Black History the National Association of Colored Women was founded in 1896. Pre-dating African American sororities, the organization set out to change the world under the motto "Lifting as we climb." NACW took on issues including lynchings, illiteracy & discrimination.”

-  Ashley Robertson Preston, Ph.D. 

More info on the National Association of Colored Women

[oberlincollegelibraries]

Sunday Edition: Black Suffragists

Each February we celebrate Black History Month. This week’s Sunday Edition Oberlin College Libraries celebrate the organizational prowess and achievements of Black suffragists. On display in Azariah’s Cafe, we are featuring several books. Mary Church Terrell, 1884 Oberlin College graduate, was an icon in the civil rights movement. In addition to being an educator, feminist, civil rights activist, she was also a founding member of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The Progress of Colored Women: Three Civil Rights Speeches by the First Black Woman to Receive a College Education in the United States of America Mary Church Terrell features several of her lectures. Also on display is Terrell’s autobiography, A Colored Woman In A White World. In A Singing Something: Womanist Reflections on Anna Julia Cooper, author Karen Baker-Fletcher follows the life and legacy of Cooper (1858-1964), Black Liberation activist and strong supporter of suffrage. In Uplifting the Women and the Race, author Karen Johnson writes of Cooper in addition to Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) who, in her activism, founded the largest black women’s organization in the United States: The National Training School for Women and Girls. Finally, on display is Brian Russell Roberts’ Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era which explores the intersections of 20th century black internationalism and U.S. diplomacy. While not entirely focused on black suffragists, Roberts includes several suffragists’ works as part of the African American literary tradition. Check out these and more at our main library and always remember Black history should be celebrated every month of the year. Happy reading! 

[theamericanparlor]

Fannie Barrier Williams  Ca 1885                

Civil rights activist Fannie Barrier Williams helped found the National League of Colored Women in 1893, which became the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) in 1896. She was later involved in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Although Williams faced racial prejudice, she participated in National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) conventions and was friends with Susan B. Anthony.

Her work to secure women’s rights was recognized when she was the only African-American selected to eulogize Susan B. Anthony at the 1907 National American Women’s Suffrage Association convention.

William Henry Richards Collection within the Robert H. McNeill Family Collections, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

[historybizarre]

Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and urged anyone who heard her to let it flourish.

[photograph of Hallie Quinn Brown]

Hallie Quinn Brown’s call for a vanguard that would empower a “great nation” of black women expressed a vision that would guide her to yet another pivotal moment in the history of black women and the vote.

In 1923, in the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment’s ratification, Brown took pen to paper and denounced a proposal by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) to dedicate a monument to the mythical black mammy of the South—a figure in servant’s garb cradling a white infant. Her words cut: Rather than loyal supplicants, “slave women were brutalized, the victims of white man’s caprice and lust. Often the babe torn from her arms was the child of her oppressor.”

As president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), Brown spoke the thoughts of many thousands, descendants of enslaved women who derided the hypocrisy of white southerners who in “one generation held the black mammy in abject slavery [and in] the next would erect a monument to her fidelity.” 

[petervintonjr]

"If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered."

Today we remember the courage of Josephine Ruffin (who died on this very date, Mar. 13, 1924): creator of The Woman's Era, the first newspaper published by and for African American women; and founder of the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America, which would ultimately become the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Get the whole story at: https://www.petervintonjr.com/blm/lesson40.html

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[petervintonjr]

Reacquaint yourself with orator Daisy Elizabeth Lampkin, the first woman ever elected to the national board of the NAACP: https://www.petervintonjr.com/blm/lesson81.html

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