The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1954-08-07
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BY MABE KoUNTzE

81 will never belittIe my race,
but encourage all to hold it in
honor and. esteem"
MARY CHURCH TERRELL
MARY CHURCH TERRELL
had recent fund established
TO eliminate racial discrimina-
ton from the nations capital
by the time she reached her
'9Oth birthday. But God called
Mary Terrell home at the age
of 80 yrs. She was allowed to
see the pattern of the PRO
missed Land. God let Mary see
the beginnings of the end of
jim crow in DC and the Ma
ton. But there was no need for
her to fight 10 yrs longer.
Others could and will, carry on.
THE CHURCH pastors of
every faith Cast and Vest
could find many a great SER
mon from the life of the lady
who was the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Reed Church
of Memphis. Mary Church was
born the year of the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation. Her grand
father was a wealthy white
Tennessee steamboat owner who
put his colored son in charge
OF purchases. Moreover, her
grandfather wanted Mary to
rise above conditions. She did.
Nobly.
THIS LADY, born of slave
parents in Freedom Year. de-
voted 80 yrs to the task of prov
Ing TO America the capabilities
OF her people. She became one
OF the first women graduates
of oberlin college $3.50; she
was teaching at Wilberforce
soon after and she became the
hrSt colored woman to be APP
pointed to U. S. school board
t1895 in DC). An American lea
der for woman suffrage, she was
a great club woman, teacher.
lecturer and crusader.
NAACP organization in 1909
mad the helping hand of Mary
Church Terrell who became the
wife of the brilliant Judge Ro-
bert H. Terrell, 20 yrs on the
bench as Municipal Judge in
ID. c., after graduating from
Harvard. Mary represented wO-
mems groups in England, Swift
zerland and Germany. She could
speak three Languages. Every
where she went Mary Church
Terrell brought added honor
and esteem to her people. And
nobody loved this work more!
AN AUTHOR, Mary Terrell
wrote several Illuminating books.
che her autobiography, "A Co.
Iored Woman in a White Wo-
mans World" certainly based
on long studied experience
That title will be revised in
years to come. But in her 80
years, Mary in the darkness
OF racial barriers had to fight
constantly against conditions
which are obvious. Yet, she
knew that the world is three
fourths colored and the world
is owned" by no one race.
U. S. PRESIDENTS, including
Rough Rider, Teddy Roose-
welt, were reminded of Mary
TerrellS crusade. Along with
William Monroe Trotter she in
f1uenced Teddy to investigate
the conditions of colored troops
In Brownsville, Texas in 1906.
She worked under Wilson. aid
ing colored troops in World War
]. Mary was busy for both mill
Larry and civilian through Ted
dy Roosevelt FDR, Truman, and
up to recent times, Eisenhower.
Few have worked more loyal
for a cause.
POLITICIANS "more in love
with demOgoguery than demo-
cracy" have come upon the
scene since Mary Church Ter
rell came up from Nashville,
Tennessee. Showing no regard
for their equals and elders,
some Of these politicians have
applied the red smear brush
to Mary Terrell, Mary Bethune,
DIR. Dubois, and other sepia
leaders approaching the CEN
fury mark in spite of their long
and proven record of loyal
achievement. But this SANDER
Will not succeed.
THE SOUTH itself will tear
down this hypocrisy of race BIZ
gotry because there we're land
still are) white men like Grand
father Church who knew and
know racial oppression to be
wrong. When the wealthy
southerner told his colored son,
"bring this girl up right"
Grandfather. Church spoke