Mary Church Terrell was a well-known African American activist who championed racial equality and women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th century. Mary was born on September 23, 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee, to former slaves Robert Reed Church & Louisa Ayres Church. She attended the Antioch College laboratory...

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