Thompson’s Restaurant was located in the centermost of the three buildings seen here
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It has since been razed. Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
This file appears in: Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Mary Church Terrell: Civil Rights Activist and Suffragist, 1863-1954
Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Mary Church Terrell: Civil Rights Activist and Suffragist, 1863-1954
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…