These markers are about the life and legacy of Mary Church Terrell, one of the first American women of African descent to earn a college degree. She was a notable educator as well as a civil rights activist and suffragette.
On Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest (Alternate U.S. 1) east of 6th Street Northwest (U.S. 50), on the right when traveling west.
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From the Capitol to the White House, Pennsylvania is “America’s Main Street,” a ceremonial avenue that for more than 200 years has provided a setting for the free expression that embodies the First Amendment. The . . . — — Map (db m37255) HM
On 4th Street Northwest just south of Elm Street Northwest, on the right when traveling south.
Alice Moore Dunbar [Nelson] (1875-1935), a budding poet and essayist, and Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), already a nationally and internationally acclaimed poet, married in 1898 and moved to this house. Mary Church Terrell, an activist and . . . — — Map (db m144576) HM
On Elm Street Northwest at 4th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west on Elm Street Northwest.
Poet May Miller once remarked that unlike New York's Harlem, LeDroit Park “didn't have to have a renaissance.” In fact, before they joined the cultural movement of the 1920s and '30s, most Harlem Renaissance intellectuals spent time at Howard . . . — — Map (db m130838) HM
On T Street Northwest east of 4th Street Northwest. Reported missing.
Save America's Treasures
This home was the residence of Mary Church Terrell, the first African American school board member in the United States, and Robert H. Terrell, the first African American municipal judge in the District of . . . — — Map (db m110498) HM
On K Street Northwest east of 9th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling east.
This majestic building was opened in 1903 as the Central Public Library, popularly known as the Carnegie Library because Andrew Carnegie donated funds to build it. From the start Central was open to all. Mary Church Terrell and historian John . . . — — Map (db m18794) HM
On Mount Vernon Place Northwest (U.S. 1) at 7th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west on Mount Vernon Place Northwest.
Wealthy industrialist Andrew Carnegie donated funds to build the Beaux Arts-style building you see across the street to your left, the city’s first public library. The Central Library opened in 1903 with 12,412 books by its predecessor, the . . . — — Map (db m152394) HM
On Seventh Street Northwest at F Street Northwest, on the right when traveling north on Seventh Street Northwest.
Terrell Place is named after
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
Teacher, Writer, Civil Rights Activist
Mary Church Terrell championed equal rights throughout her life — locally, nationally, and internationally.
From 1951 to 1952, at . . . — — Map (db m100863) HM
On G Street Northwest at 14th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west on G Street Northwest.
The chasm between the principles upon which the government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawns wide and deep
Mary Church . . . — — Map (db m141277) HM
On 9th Street Northwest at Rhode Island Avenue Northwest (U.S. 29) on 9th Street Northwest.
The building across the street at 901 Rhode Island Avenue is the city's first Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) for African Americans. It honors Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784), considered America's first published black . . . — — Map (db m143566) HM
On South Parkway East, 0.7 miles east of South Willett Street, on the right when traveling west.
In March of 1892, business partners Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell and William Henry Stewart were arrested for defending an attack on their store, The People's Grocery. The white competitor and the deputy sheriffs he hired were met with gunfire. . . . — — Map (db m141200) HM
Near North Front Street at Madison Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
A champion of racial and gender equality, Mary Church was born on September 23,
1863, in Memphis to business owners Louisa and Robert R. Church. "Mollie,” as she was called, earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Oberlin College, taught . . . — — Map (db m213321) HM
On Beale Street east of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling east.
Born in Memphis in 1863, Mary Church Terrell was noted as a champion of human rights. The daughter of millionaire Robert Church, Sr., she was graduated from Oberlin College in 1884 and later made her home in Washington, D.C. In 1904, she was a . . . — — Map (db m63342) HM
Near Lorton Road at Ox Road (Virginia Route 123), on the left when traveling east.
"Forward Out of Darkness," Women on the Margins of a New Nation, 1776 and Prior
“Remember the Ladies… If particular [sic] care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, . . . — — Map (db m196692)
On Lorton Road, 1 mile south of Ox Road (Virginia Route 123), on the left when traveling east.
New Life in State by State Campaigns, 1900-1920
"Set the woman on her own feet…Women must stand free with men."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, influential author and economist who worked with Harriot Stanton Blatch in . . . — — Map (db m197339) HM
Near Murphy Road, on the right when traveling south.
In July 1896, members of the National League of Colored Women traveled here from Washington, D.C. and posed for their picture in front of John Brown’s Fort. The women came to pay homage to Brown and his raiders, establishing a pilgrimage . . . — — Map (db m8317) HM
