Fight On!
Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration
New York : Clarion Books, [2003]
Format: Book
Description: ix, 181 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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.
Contents:
Mary Church Terrell's family tree -- Who was Mary Church Terrell? -- A bowl of soup -- Bob Church's daughter -- "Hold high the banner of my race" -- "I am a colored girl" -- "The welfare of my race" -- Mr. Terrell "goes to Church" -- "Lifting as we climb" -- "I have done so little" -- A "meddler" -- "I intend never to grow old" -- "Your indomitable spirit" -- "Fight on" -- "Your long and valiant struggle" -- Afterword: "Those who will follow after you."
Subjects:
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.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Washington (D.C.) -- Race relations.
Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
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.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Washington (D.C.) -- Race relations.
Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
0618133496
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C BIOGRAPHY Terrell, Mary Church | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Terrell, Mary Church | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Terrell, Mary Church | North Main | Children's Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.