A colored woman in a white world. ([2021])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mary Church Terrell ; introduction by Debra Newman Ham.
• Authors: Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954
• Other Names: Ham, Debra Newman, 1948-
• Contents: Introduction -- My parents -- Early childhood -- I am sent North to school -- My parents send me to Oberlin, Ohio -- I enter Oberlin College -- Activities during college course -- I go to Memphis, teach in Wilberforce and Washington and go abroad -- I study in Germany -- In Europe with mother and brother -- I leave Berlin and go to Florence -- I return to the United States -- With Frederick Douglass and Paul Dunbar at the World's Fair -- Buying a home under difficulties -- Learning to cook and entertaining guests -- The Commissioners of the National Capital appoint me a member of the school board -- The National American Woman Suffrage Association invites me to speak -- Club work -- On the lecture platform -- Notable lecture engagements -- Prince Henry of Prussia, Dr. Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee -- In Berlin, Germany -- Distinguished people I met abroad -- My efforts to succeed as a writer -- My children and I -- My experience as a clerk in a government department -- Efforts in Senate to prevent Judge Terrell's confirmation -- The Secretary of War suspends order dismissing colored soldiers at my request -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Centenary and my sally into spiritualism -- Trying to get a colored girl into an academy in the North -- Traveling under difficulties -- Political activities : charged with disorderly conduct -- Work in war camp community service -- Delegate to the International Peace Congress -- Meeting old friends and new : plus a dose of race prejudice administered by my countrymen -- A week-end visit with Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Wells : I meet other distinguished people in England -- Employed by Ruth Hanna McCormick to help in her campaign for the United States Senate, abroad with my daughter -- A few cases of friction -- Crossing the color line -- The colored man's paradise -- Social activities -- I address the International Assembly of the World Fellowship of Faiths in London and meet Haile Selassie -- Carrying on.
• Edition: [New edition]
• Publisher Details: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 323.092; African Americans -- Segregation -- History; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History; African Americans -- Biography; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography; African American women social reformers -- Biography; African American women social reformers; African Americans; African Americans -- Civil rights; African Americans -- Segregation; Civil rights workers; United States; Biography; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781538145982; 1538145987
• Related ISBNs: 9781538145975
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.