Lommel, Cookie.

Mary Church Terrell : speaking out for civil rights / Cookie Lommel. - Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2003. - 112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - African-American biographies .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 110) and index.

Lost laws -- A child of privilege -- Education was her life -- A born activist -- The turning point -- The lecture circuit -- Women's rights -- Serving education -- The NAACP calls -- An author of note -- The tireless organizer.

Traces the life and achievements of the black civil rights worker whose greatest accomplishment, the integration of restaurants in Washington, D.C., came when she was nearly ninety years old.

0766021165 (lib. bdg.) : $20.95

2002010401


Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.


African American women--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
Civil rights--United States--Biography.
African Americans--Segregation--History.
African Americans--Civil rights--History.

E185.97.T47 / L66 2003

323/.092 B