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Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration
By Fradin, Dennis Brindell & Fradin, Judith Bloom
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-61813-349-9
- Publisher
- Clarion
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2003
Gr 6-9 In this carefully researched, fascinating biography, the life of the feisty, courageous, and determined woman who spent nearly 60 years fighting for racial equality vividly unfolds. "Mollie," as Terrell was called, was born to former slaves in 1863, and went on to attend Oberlin College and become the first black woman appointed to the Washington, DC, Board of Education. She was a cofounder of the NAACP, fought against lynching, worked with Susan B. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2003
Mary Church Terrell was the activist who won, at the age of eighty-nine, a Supreme Court decision desegregating eating places in Washington, D.C. Born before Emancipation to parents who had been slaves, she graduated from Oberlin College and spent a lifetime working to "promote the welfare of my race," whether teaching, lecturing, leading black civic organizations, or supporting her husband, a pioneering black judge. The Fradins cov...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
