A Colored Woman in a White World
By: Mary Church Terrell ; introduction by Nellie Y. McKay.
Series: African-American women writers, 1910-1940
Publisher: G.K. Hall; Prentice Hall International
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, USA; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780783814216
Subjects: Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.; African Americans -- Segregation.; African Americans -- Civil rights.; African Americans -- Biography.; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.; African American women social reformers -- Biography.
Description: Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was a forceful leader in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the movements for civil rights, women's rights, and world peace. As Nellie Y. McKay states in her introduction to Terrell's 1940 autobiography, she was a "quintessential race woman who fully met W. E. B.

Du Bois's standards for the Talented Tenth, as well as those of the black club women's 'lifting as we climb' ideal." A fascinating and highly readable memoir, A Colored Woman in a White World documents Terrell's childhood, education, and her very significant contributions to social reform in the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxvi) and index.
Originally published: Washington : Ransdell, c1940. With new introd.