Mary Church Terrell, shown with federal judge William Hastie and NAACP officials Walter White and Eugene Davidson, celebrates her 90th birthday, 1954.

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This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Mary Church Terrell, Tireless Advocate

Mary Church Terrell, shown with federal judge William Hastie and NAACP officials Walter White and Eugene Davidson, celebrates her 90th birthday, 1954.

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Mary Church Terrell, Tireless Advocate

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Mary Church Terrell, Tireless Advocate

This quote by Mary Church Terrell, who moved to 1615 S Street in Dupont Circle with her husband Robert Heberton Terrell in 1920, closed an opinion piece by the editors of the Chicago Defender in June 1947. Mary Terrell was a vocal, internationally…