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Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, clippings, printed material, and other papers focusing primarily on Terrell's career as an advocate of women's rights and equal treatment for African Americans. Subjects include women's suffrage; Equal Rights Amendment; education and suffrage for African Americans; desegregation in the District of Columbia; lynching and peonage conditions in the South; progressivism; the campaigns of Presidents Calvin Coolidge, Warren G. Harding, and Herbert Hoover; the Illinois senatorial campaign of Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms; and family affairs. Documents her work with the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws, International Purity Conference, National American Woman Suffrage Association, National Association of Colored Women, National Purity Conference, National Woman's Party, War Camp Community Service, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Young Women's Christian Association. Includes a manuscript of Terrell's autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World (1940).
Correspondents include Jane Addams, Mary McLeod Bethune, Benjamin Griffith Brawley, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Carrie Chapman Catt, Oscar De Priest, W.E.B. DuBois, Christian A. Fleetwood, Francis Jackson Garrison, W.C. Handy, Ida Husted Harper, Addie W. Hunton, Maude White Katz, Eugene Meyer, William L. Patterson, A. Philip Randolph, Jeannette Rankin, Haile Selassie I, Annie Stein, Anson Phelps Stokes, William Monroe Trotter, Oswald Garrison Villard, Booker T. Washington, Margaret James Murray Washington, H.G. Wells, and Carter Godwin Woodson.
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Lynching, Suffrage, National Woman's Party, Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws, Politics and government, Elections, Societies and clubs, Women's rights, War Camp Community Service (U.S.), International Purity Conference, Correspondence, Societies, Race relations, National Purity Conference, Young Women's Christian Association, Presidents, Civil rights, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Equal rights amendments, Segregation, Peonage, National American Woman Suffrage Association, National Association of Colored Women (U.S.), Constitutional amendments, Election, Progressivism (United States politics), Education, African Americans, WomenPeople
Anson Phelps Stokes (1874-1958), William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934), Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1882-1939), William L. Patterson (1891-), Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), Oscar De Priest (1871-1951), Ida Husted Harper (1851-1931), H. G. Wells (1866-1946), Eugene Meyer (1875-1959), Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), Addie W. Hunton (b. 1866), Warren G. Harding (1865-1923), Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms (1880-1944), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), Terrell family, Christian A. Fleetwood (1840-1914), Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949), Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-), Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), Margaret James Murray Washington (1861?-1925), Annie Stein, W. C. Handy (1873-1958), Haile Selassie I Emperor of Ethiopia (1892-1975), Maude White Katz, Francis Jackson Garrison (1848-1916), Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Jane Addams (1860-1935), Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947), A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979), Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950)Places
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Open to research.
Microfilm edition available, no. 16,976.
Microfilm edition produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.
Gift, Phyllis Terrell Langston, 1955-1975.
transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
African American civil rights leader, lecturer, and educator.
Collection material in English, with French and German.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.
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