Fight on!
Subtitle: Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration
By: Dennis Brindell Fradin & Judith Bloom Fradin.
Contributors: Fradin, Judith Bloom.
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.; Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.; African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.; African Americans -- Biography.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.; African Americans -- Segregation -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights workers.; African Americans -- Biography.; Women -- Biography.; Washington (D.C.) -- Race relations.; Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized of pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mary Church Terrell's family tree; title: Who was Mary Church Terrell?; title: A bowl of soup; title: Bob Church's daughter; title: "Hold high the banner of my race"; title: "I am a colored girl"; title: "The welfare of my race"; title: Mr. Terrell "goes to Church"; title: "Lifting as we climb"; title: "I have done so little"; title: A "meddler"; title: "I intend never to grow old"; title: "Your indomitable spirit"; title: "Fight on"; title: "Your long and valiant struggle"; title: Afterword: "Those who will follow after you."