Portrait, Mary Church Terrell
This file appears in: Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Discrimination and Activism: It took decades for racial discrimination to end in DC's retail stores.
Photograph: Mary Church Terrell is seated and looks toward the camera for this formal portrait photograph.
This file appears in: Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Discrimination and Activism: It took decades for racial discrimination to end in DC's retail stores.
Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Discrimination and Activism: It took decades for racial discrimination to end in DC's retail stores.
Department stores, in addition to offering products and merchandise, excited customers because they created an environment of abundance, ease, and luxury that they might not have had access to beyond…