Terrell (center) and others picket Murphy’s Five-and-Ten, which segregated its lunch counter

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Terrell (center) and others picket Murphy’s Five-and-Ten, which segregated its lunch counter

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.

This file appears in: Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Mary Church Terrell

Born into wealth in Memphis—her father, Robert Church, was the South’s first black millionaire—Mary Church had earned two degrees from Oberlin by 1888. She moved to Washington to teach at the M Street High School, founded after the Civil War as the…