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FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Prominent Suffragists Attend Sixtieth Anniversary.
[*Syracuse Herald May 28, 1908*]
CONVENTION AT SENECA FALLS

Exercises Incident Upon the Unveiling 
of a Bronze Tablet to Commemorate 
the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Women's Rights—
Noted Speakers Heard.

  Seneca Falls, May 28.—The unveiling 
of the bronze tablet, commemorative of 
the sixtieth anniversary of the first 
women's rights convention in the world's
history, which was held in this place
July 19th, 1848, was the first on the 
programme of yesterday's celebration of
that important event. It had been planned 
to have the exercises in the open 
air in front of the tablet, but the uncertainty 
of the weather rendered it 
necessary to change them and they were 
held in the hall instead.
  Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch presided 
and after a few words in explanation, 
called upon the Rev. Charles Cicard, pastor 
of the Wesleyan Methodist church,
 who offered a short prayer. Harrison 
Chamberlain, president of the Historical 
society, gave a short address of welcome, 
after which the Rev. Mrs. Anna Ford 
Eastman of Elmira gave the opening address, 
taking for her subject, "Woman's 
Relation to the Human Race." She characterized 
this, the greatest movement of 
modern times, as a "silent, bloodless
revolution, but far reaching in its scope." 
She lectured briefly on the record made 
by women in the last fifty years in the 
learned professions, law, medicine, religion; 
to the achievements in business
from manipulation of the stock market 
to the running of a Mississippi river 
steamboat; to the great army of clerks 
and bookkeepers, and other professions 
and occupations in which they had [?]
only held their own, but [?]
but greatest of all she[?]
change in woman's idea of [?]
the change in her relations to [?]
and mankind, which has been [?]
about in the last fifty years. She referred 
to the old Biblical idea of the 
subjection of woman to man, which was 
demanded by the existing conditions, 
which were now entirely different. Her 
remarks throughout were logical and convincing, 
and carried conviction to her
audience. 
  She was followed by Mrs. Mary 
Church Terell, who gave a most interesting
 address, the opening paragraph 
of which was as follows: "It is a blessed 
dispensation of Providence that the 
good great men and women do is not 
confined to the limits of a lifetime. 
Such a waste of goodness and greatness 
would make the human race poor 
indeed. It is because deeds live long 
that the life of the real heroes and 
heroines, the real benefactors of the 
world, are so precious in our sights, 
because their lives are lessons ; which 
are the most effective guides of humanity." 
She said that for 2,000 years 
mankind has been gradually breaking 
down the various barriers which formerly 
restricted freedom, dwarfed the 
intellect, that has doomed certain individuals 
to narrow circumscribal spheres 
due to the mere accident of birth. Mrs. 
Terrell has a commanding presence. 
She closed her remarks with the following 
invocation: "Oh, Justice, in 
whose name and for whose sake so 
much blood has been spilt, so many 
hearths made desolate and human 
hearts broken, the oppressed of all the 
earth now wait upon thee with quivering
lips. Hasten, we beseech thee; 

take up thy abode with men. Diffuse 
the sweetness and righteousness and 
peace of thy perfect truth, so that 
tyranny and all forms of hateful oppression
may hide from the awful 
majesty of thy presence and no human
creature, whether woman or man, 
Jew or gentile, barbarian 
or Greek, be beyond the pale of 
that power and protection which come 
only from thee." 
  At the afternoon meeting Mrs. Terrell 
gave an eloquent address on Frederick 
Douglass, who was present at the 
1848 convention and who always took a 
great interest in the cause of woman 
suffrage. Others who spoke were Mrs.
Mary H. Hallowell, on "Impressions of
"Lucretia Mott." Mrs. Harriot Stanton 
Blatch on "Elizabeth Cady Stanton." 
Alice Hooker Day on "A Bit of 
Biography." and Mary Seymour Howell 
on "Reminiscences." 
  At the afternoon meeting Mrs. 
Blatch gave an interesting talk on "The 
Event We Celebrate," and rPof. Earl
Barnes on "The Educational Value of 
Political Life." 
  The evening session at the Presbyterian 
church, which closed the programme, 
was largely atended. Miss Elizabeth E. 
Cook gave the Woodford prize oration. 
She was followed by Maud athan, with
an address on "The Suffrage Argument."
Which she handled in a manner to carry 
conviction to her hearers. Prof. Nathaniel 
Schmidt spoke on, "Vitalized Democracy," 
and Anna Tarlin Spencer gave a 
very interesting talk on the general subject,
in which she made many good 
points. 

 The whole affair which was under the 
direction of Mrs. Blatch, was carried out 
as planned, and made a good impression 
on the public, who have now a better 
idea and a more clear understanding of
the movement than before. One idea was 
brought out that has a local bearing, 
and will serve to increase the number of 
supporters of women's rights. As the 
law stands women who own property 
can vote upon a proposition to raise 
money as in the Waterworks case, but 
they have no vote when it comes to the 
question of electing men who are to 
spend the money. That is an injustice 
that will appeal to many who have heretofore
been indifferent.

Tablet Commemorative of First Movement for Women's Rights


[*The Record, Friday Jan. 3, 1908*]
FOREMOST WOMAN OF AMERICA
MRS. MARY C. TERRELL OF WASHINGTON

Leading Spirit in Interests For the
Race.  Takes First Rank as a 
Speaker and Writer.  Member 
of Local School Board.

  Mrs. Mary Church Terrell is unquestionably
one of the foremost colored
women in America.  In all matters
affecting the interests of the women
of her race she is a leading spirit.
She was the first president of the National
Association of Colored Women,
to which position she was elected
three times in succession by the most
flattering majorities, and declining to
serve further, was made honorary
president for life.  This association
is composed of women who represent
all that is best in character, intellect,
and energy.  Its membership is extensive
and it has subordinate organizations 
in every State of the Union.
Its work is known everywhere and has 
received the highest commendation
of the press of the country.  Its chief
object is to uplift and help the less
fortunate ones of the colored people
in America.  Its principal field of action
is necessarily in the South where
the great masses of  colored people
live.  In this section of the country
the efforts of this band of women have
been very effective and have made a
deep impression on many a benighted
community.
  Mrs. Terrell's exceptional natural
ability and splendid intellectual attainments
have been utilized not only
by the people of her own race, but
they have also attracted the attention
of the leading white women of
the country.  She has twice been invited 
to address the National Woman's
Suffrage Association at its annual
convention in this city.  Her
public utterances have always made a
profound impression on her hearers
and no speakers associated with her 
have received more applause from audiences
or higher praise from the
public press than herself.  At a recent
convention of the National Woman's
Suffrage Association Mrs. Isabella
Beecher Hooker, the sister of the immortal
Harriet Beecher Stowe, who
gave the world "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
presented Mrs. Terrell a bust of
the distinguished author.  Mrs. Hooker 
has recently spoken of her as follows: 
"At a convention composed of 

the brainiest women of the United
States, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell has
proved herself an orator among orators.
She is a speaker of superior
ability, fine presence, and strong, magnetic
power, graceful, eloquent, logical.
  Not many years ago when Congress
by resolution granted power to the 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia
to appoint two women upon
the Board of Education for the
Public Schools, Mrs. Terrell was one
of the women appointed.  She served
on the board for five years with great
success and signal ability.
   Mrs. Terrell's life has been an interesting
one.  She was born in Memphis,
Tenn., and at a very early age
the parents sent their promising
daughter to Ohio to be educated and
she remained there until she graduated
at Oberlin College.  One year after
graduating from Oberlin College she
accepted a position at Wilberforce
University, where she remained
two years; then she was appointed
a teacher of languages in the colored
high schools of this city.  After teaching
one year she went abroad for further
study and travel and remained in
Europe two years, spending the time
in France, Switzerland, Germany and
Italy.  She resumed her work here as
soon as she returned from abroad.  She 
was offerred the registrarship of Oberlin
College, being the first woman of
her race to whom such a position was
ever tendered by an institution so
widely known and of such high standard.
She was married to Mr. Robert
H. Terrell, a graduate of Harvard
College, former Principal of the Colored
High School.  Mrs. Terrell has a
daughter whom she has named Phyllis
in honor of Phyllis Wheatley , the African
woman whose verses received
the commendation of George Washington
and other distinguished men.

  Under the management of one of 
the largest lecture bureaus in the 
United Ststes, Mrs. Terrell has delivered 
addresses at the leading Chautauquas
and has spoken in many of 
the cities with great success. In lecturing 
she possesses unusual fluency
and persuasiveness. She stands be-

fore her audience without note or 
manuscript and seems to draw at will 
from her large and varied store of 
exact and useful knowledge. She 
never fails to captivate her audience
by her ease and charm of manner and 
her lucidity and forcefulness of 
style. 
  Ers. Terrell is equally at ease with 
her tongue or pen. Her contributions
to newspapers and magazines place 
her in the frout rank of those who are 
contributing to current thought and 
discussion. As a newspaper writer
she has devoted her energies to investigating
conditions of her own people, 
especially in such cases where those
conditions show progress. 
  Mrs. Terrell was chosen one of the 
speakers at the International Congress 
of Women which was held in 

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FOREMOST WOMAN OF 
AMERICA. 

Continued from page 1. 

Berlin, Germany, June 1904. Her 
address at that time was widely commented 
upon, because she was the only 
one of the American delegates who 
spoke in German. "The woman who 
made the best appearance of the convention,'
, according  to M. Remy, the 
correspondent of the Paris Temps, 
"was Mrs. Terrell of Washington, a 
lady of Andalusian complexion,' who
in ease of manner, gracefulness and 
force of gesture and naturalness of expression 
was ahead of all the other
oratrices. Mrs. Terrell spoke in German 
with the same fluency and ease 
as in her native tongue." The Washington 
Pose declared editorially: "The 
hit of the Congress on the part of the 
American delegates was made by Mrs. 
Mary Church Terrell of Washington, 
who delivered one speech in German 
and another in equally good French. 
Mrs. Terrell is a colored woman who 
appears to have been beyond every 
other of our delegates prominent for 
her ability to make addresses in other 
than her own language." In a syndicate 
letter to some of the largest newspapers 
in the country Mrs. Ida Husted 
Harper said: "Mrs. Terrell was able 
to deliver one speech in excellent 
German, and one equally good in
French. This achievement on the
part of a colored woman, added to a 
fine appearance and the eloquence of 
her words, carried the audience by 
storm and she had to respond three 
times to the encores before they were
satisfied. It was more than a personal 
triumph, it was a triumph for her 
race"

[*2. The Record 1-3-8*     2nd Sheet*]
Mrs. Terrell is yet a young woman 
and has before her a future of usefulness. 
Her splendid work is doing much
toward creating sentiment in favor 
of her race. Wherever she speaks, 
her eloquent utterances and chaste 
diction make a deep impression which 
must have its influence in the final 
shaping of the vexed problems that 
confront the people of this country. 

MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL

red student to be so honored at Tufts.
[*Washington Sentinel*]
[?]
MRS. TERRELL SPEAKS
AT DAYTONIA, FLA
[*Nov. 31-192 3*]
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of this 
city, wife of Judge Robert [?] Terrell
recently delivered a forceful address 
at the Community Meeting at Daytonia, 
Florida. Our contemporary, 
the "Florida Sentinel," says that Mrs. 
Terrell's address on the "Progress of 
Women of the Race" was a mester-piece 
of eloquence and earnest 
thought. 

N, D.C., SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1895
[*Woman's Tribune-*]
Women School Trustees.
The women appointed on the Washington 
School Board are Mrs. Louisa 
Reed Stowell and Mrs. Mary Church 
Terrell.
Mrs. Stowell was Professor in Michigan 
University, but has been for some 
years in botanical work for the Agricultural 
Department. She is the wife of 
Dr. Stowell, editor of the National Medical 
Review.
The choice of Mrs. Terrell shows the 
desire of the Commissioners to fairly 
represent the interests of the colored 
population. Mrs. Terrell is a graduate 
of Oberlin with honors won in the classical 
course and the degree of A.M., has 
been conferred on her. She is 
proficient in French, German and Italian, 
having [per ec ed ?] [he self] in study 
abroad. There is probably not a better 
educated lady in Washington, nor one 
more calculated to do good service in 
this capacity. Mrs. Terrell taught in the 
High School of Washington for some 
time previous to her marriage with Robt. 
H. Terrell, a Washington lawyer. She 
is a member of the District W. S. A., 
but not often seen at its meetings as her 
time is largely devoted to work with and 
for colored people, she being President 
of the Bethel Literary and Historical 
Society, Chairman of the Educational 
Committee of the Colored Woman's
League and leader of a class in English
Literature made up largely of her intimate
friends.
The TRIBUNE congratulates the District
on the admirable choice of the
Commissioners in selecting such truly
representative and capable women. 
__________________

REPUBLICANS NAME
MRS> M> C> TERRELL
_________
Appointed Advisor of Colored
Women in Eastern Campaign
Division.
[?] [*Oct 5, 1932*]
Announcement of the appointment of
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, prominent in
colored Republican circles of Washington,
as advisor of the colored women
in the Eastern Division, was made today
at the Republican National Committee's
Eastern headquarters in New 
York. 
[picture of Mrs. Terrell, Captioned: Mrs. Terrell.]
Noted for her work in 1920 when she
was in New York
to aid colored women
voting in the 
presidential campaign
for the first
time after the
nineteenth amendment
was passed,
Mrs. Terrell today
is receiving the
congratulations of
friends on her new
appointment. She 
is making her
headquarters in the
Waldorf Astoria
Hotel, where the
Republican National
Committee maintains
offices for the
Eastern division.
Mrs. Terrell served in the presidential
campaign of 1920 with the title of supervisor
of the Eastern division of colored
women. Well known as a convincing
speaker, she was dispatched to
"stump" throughout the country during
the 1924 and 1928 campaigns, acting
in the capacity of key aide to the Colored
Speakers' Bureau.
Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick,
also selected Mrs. Terrell in 1930
to conduct her campaign among the
colored voters of Illinois in connection
with the Republican primary contest
for the senatorial nomination.
At that time Mrs. McCormick expressed
in a letter to Mrs. Terrell her
deep gratification for the service performed
by the latter in connection with
the campaign. "I shall always feel,"
said Mrs. McCormick. "that I was fortunate
in having your assistance in the
Illinois senatorial primary. Your work
required the greatest industry, judgement,
tact, and loyalty, and you generously
filled all those requirements."
Mrs. Terrell makes her home here at
1615 S street. 
_____________________
TRIBUTE TO NEGRO WOMEN
[?]
Their Work in the South Graphically
Set Forth by Mrs. Terrell
in Institute Lecture.
[?] [*29-1911*]
_____________
A fine tribute to the self-denying work
of the colored women teachers in the
South, was paid by Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell, of the Board of Education of
Washington, D. C., in her Brooklyn Institute
lecture of yesterday afternoon, in
lecture hall, Academy of Music. It was
the second in Mrs. Terrell's course on
"The Negro in the United States," and
was devoted to "The Progress of the
Colored Woman."
Handicapped by sex and race, the
women the lecturer said have grave difficulties
to meet, so it is all the more
remarkable when they graduate from
Oberlin, from which they early won honors;
Wellesley, Vassar and Ann Arbor.
One, the only colored girl competing
against a number of white girls, carried
on the prize of scholarship in the
University of Chicago, and other instances
were given where colored women
have made great successes.
These women very generally turn
their talents to the uplift of their race
and devote themselves to teaching, over
80 percent. of the colored teachers being
women, and go to do battle with ignorance,
vice, and crime.
"Many a black heroine has lost her
life- laid down almost unnoticed perhaps-
in her effort to help her race," said
Mrs. Terrell, herself a remarkably well
educated colored woman. What the
women teachers have done for the poor
women on the great plantations is of
enormous value. It was said that some
plantation owners believe in keeping the
help as near the brute as possible. On
such plantations, the women teachers
have taught the women how to clean the
hovels they must call home, how to cook,
wash and iron; bathe and feed their children
and sew for them. and even how
to make furniture out of boxes and barrels.
Believing that it is through the
good influence of the home that a race
becomes truly good and great, these
teachers are making the women know
that a house and home that is badly
kept is a menace to health, and may be
a breeder of vice and an abode of crime.
Much emphasis is laid on social purity,
its necessity being constantly preached.
In furtherance of this household uplift,
mothers congresses have been held at
convenient points.
Speaking of the alleged immorality
among colored women, Mrs. Terrell said
that statistics compiled by white people,
say that is is not so great as among
women living under similar social conditions
in five European countries, She
had much to say of the difficulties of
young colored girls who come to the
large cities in the North to find work,
quoting from Mrs. Florence Kelley's reports.

Greatest Lecturer of 
Sex.
New age - Los angeles Cal
[?]
___
International Speaker
Coming to Los Angeles
___
THE DUMAS LYCEUM BUREAU
PRESENTS
___
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington,
D. C., Friday evening, June
18, at the A. M. E. Church, 8th and
Towne Ave. Mrs. Terrell is not only
a great colored lecturer, but one of
the best women speakers of the age.
Mrs. Terrell will tell you things
about the race, you have never hear
before. She represents the highest 
type of her sex of any race. Every
man, woman and child, will be benefited
by the address of the remarkable
women. This paper bespeaks
for her a large and appreciative audience
that will be the better inspired 
for a greater endeavor for racial 
progress after they hear how she
worked for success and won.
When Mary Church Terrell graduated
form college, some twenty
years ago, her attainments were recognized
as so remarkable that she
was at once invited to become a
member of the faculty. Instead, she
married the brilliant young Harvard
graduate to whom she was engaged 
and how is now a judge in the Federal
Caurt at the Nation's Capitol.
Once at an International Congress
in Paris, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell
told the story of the Negroes' progress
in limpid and beautiful French;
again in Rome, she told it in Italian.
At 8th and Towne Ave. Church, Friday
evening, June 18, se will tell it
to us in strong and forceful English
and not a colored person in Los Angeles
can afford to miss hearing her.
There will be no reserved seats, so
come early and hear of the "The
Problems and Progress" of the most
progressive race of earth. 
_____________________
A DARK SUBJECT.
__________
Its Bright Side to be Discussed
at a Coming Lecture.

In honor of the opening of the Hall
memorial industrial school in this city
January 12, the Women's Friendly Institute,
under the leadership of Miss
Frances Riley, its president and
founder, will hold a meeting in
Burd's hall on the evening of January
12, at 8 o'clock, at which time many
prominent colored will be present. Mrs.
Rosetta Douglass Sprague, daughter 
of the late Frederick Douglass, will
address the meeting; also Mrs. Jerome
Jeffries, state organizer of the National
Association of Colored Women,
of New York state. Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell, honorary president of
the National Association of Colored
Women of America, will deliver a
lecture, "The Bright Side of a Dark
Subject."

TRIBUTE TO MRS. TERRELL.

Washington Gives Splendid Testimonial
to Brilliant Woman Leader.
Special to THE AMSTERDAM NEWS.
Washington, D. C., April 18. - A
splendid testimonial was held in Lincoln
Memorial Congregational Church
last Friday night in compliment to
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, for her
long and faithful services as a member
of the Board of Education of this
city. Speeches of appreciation were
made by Rev. A. C. Garner of the
Plymouth Congregational Church Assistant
Superintendent Roscoe C.
Bruce, ex-District Commissioner H. B.
F. Macfarland. Capt. James F. Oyster,
president of the Board of Education;
Rev. Dr. W. P. Thirkield, president of
Howard University; Rec. Sylvester L.
Corrothers, pastor of the Galbraith
Chapel, and Judge William H. De
Lacy of the Juvenile Court.
Mrs. Leila Pendleton presided at the 
meeting and Rev. Sterling N. Brown,
pastor of the Lincoln Church, delivered
the invocation, and Rev. William
M. Clair of Asbury M. E. Church, pronounced
the benediction. There were
instrumental solos by Miss Mary Europe
and Miss Phylis, Terrell, daughter
of Mrs. Terrell, and a vocal solo
by Miss Lottie Wallace. There were
two presentation addresses, one by 
Mrs. A. M. Curtis, who formally tendered
an offering of flowers, which 
consisted of American beauty roses,
sent by President Taft, and a children's 
testimonial, comprising a large 
floral design. The other address was
by Frank R. Cardoza, principal of the 
Henry Wilson School, who on behalf
of citizens of the District presented
a bronze stature of the Venus de Milo
on a pedestal.
The committee in charge of the testimonial
consisted of Rev. A. C. Garner,
chairman; Miss R. E. Bell, secretary;
Mrs. Fannie M. Clair, treasurer;
Mrs. Lula A. Pendleton, Dr. Robert
w. Brown, Mrs. J. M. Layton, J. W.
Cromwell and Mrs. L. M. Hershaw.


hanging or shooting.
[*Minneapolis Tribune Sunday Vol. 18 1900*]

A GEM OF MOVING ELOQUENCE. 

Last week's most notable event in our 
city was the meeting here of the executive 
committee of the National Woman's Council. 
The delegate embraced some of the 
most prominent women of our country, and 
the subjects discussed were of local, national 
and world-wide interest. The public 
session which were conducted according 
to strict parliamentary law, showed the 
progress that American women have made 
in a science once supposed to be the exclusive 
province of man. 
The afternoon and evening sessions which 
were open to the public were of unusual 
interest. The addresses of Mrs. Sewall and 
Mrs. Gaffney, presidents respectively of 
the International and National councils, 
were able, timely and eloquent and set 
forth clearly and forcibly the aims of these 
vast bodies of earnest, progressive women 
and the work they have already accomplished. 
While the addresses of all the speakers 
were admirable in subject, and treatment, 
the palm must be conceded to Mrs. Mary 
Church Terrell, the colored delegate from 
Washington, D. C. Mrs. Terrell is a woman 
of refined, imposing presence, the wife of a 
prominent lawyer, and a member of the 
Washington board of education, her special 
work being the establishment of kindergartens 
for colored children. Her husband, 
like herself, was educated at Oberlin college, 
that institution which has done so 
much for the uplifting of a down trodden 
race. Her subject was "The Progress of 
Colored Women." Taking for her text the 
words "Lifting as We Climb," the motto 
of the progressive leaders of her race, she 
pleaded for justice to her people in eloquent, 
impassioned language that moved 
many of her audience to tears. In beauty 
and refinement of diction, as well as in 
impressive earnestness, her appeal was a 
master piece of oratory. 
She did not seek to exalt the virtues of 
her race. She owned to a degeneracy born 
of long years of ignorance and servitude, 
and set forth the present disabilities her 
people are suffering from the color 
prejudice rife in the North, and almost a 
mania in the South. She demonstrated the 
follow of expecting a race, but a few years 
ago freed from slavery, to rise in one short 
generation of freedom, to level which the 
white races have reached only through the 
slow evolution of centuries. Her ideas of 
the elevation of her people conform to the 
practical theories of Booker Washington. 
There were two colored delegates to this 
important gathering of the leading spirits 
of a great organization which is formed 
on broad lines, and admits no invidious distinctions 
on account of race, creed or 
color. Its enthusiastic reception of Mrs. 
Terrell was in striking contrast to the 
treatment suffered last summer by Mrs. 
Ruffin at the Milwaukee biennial, the national 
reunion of the Federation of Woman's 
clubs. Mrs. Ruffin, a refined educated 
woman of Boston, who stood so high in 
the intellectual circles of that city that 
she was chosen by three of its leading 
white women's clubs to represent them at 
the biennial, was denied admittance as a 
delegate, because, although she might have 
passed for a white woman, she had a few 
drops of colored blood in her veins, and 
came as a representative of an association 
of the race to which she remotely belongs. 
We hear of a Massachusetts woman's 
club which a few days ago withdrew from 
the federation on account of its insult to 
Mrs. Ruffin. It is said that the other clubs 

will soon do likewise, and that the disrupting 
wedge which has entered this great 
body may ere long rend it asunder. The 
National Council of Women is to be congratulated 
for its catholic spirit and 
its broader philanthropy. 




The Clarinda Herald 

CHAUTAQU DAILY 

Wednesday, August 15, 1900 

THE QUEEN OF HER RACE 

Mrs. Terrell Delivers a Magnificent 
Address Before the Assembly 

Mrs. Mary Church Terrell has come, 
and spoken, and conquered. She 
came on Tuesday afternoon. She delivered 
her address on the work of the 
colored women of her race a short 
time after she arrived, and last evening 
she was the "lioness of the hour." 
She won all by her beautiful, unassuming 
manner, her sweet face, and 
her stirring, inspiring words. Her 
subject was a vast one, and one not 
easily handled. But the "Female 
Booker T. Washington" had complete 
mastery of her subject. She had studied 
it long and well, through bitter 
personal experience and observation 
of others of her race, and her appeal 
for justice to her brethren and sisters 
was powerful and pathetic. It is the 
first time a Clarinda audience has ever 
heard Mrs. Terrell. We have heard 
of her for many years, and now that 
we have heard her on our own platform, 
we feel highly honored. By her 
words she has given the people of Clarinda 
and vicinity a higher regard for 
the colored race, and inspired them to 
feel that justice and equality must be 
granted to the weaker people. 
Mrs. Terrell was introduced by Mrs. 
J. W. Dili. A short synopsis of her 
address, which continued for over an 
hour with unabated interest, is as 
follows: -- 
Not the least among the [?] 
for which the colored race 
has to be thankful, said the speaker is the progress 
made by the women in the race. 
Under the old rule of the colored race, 
women were not only denied any education, 
but every degration of body 
and soul was heaped upon them. The 
most cruel thing they have to fight 
now is the prejudice against their 
race, as well as the prejudice against 
women. In spite of their difficulties, 
their progress has never been surpassed 
in the history of the world. From 
Oberlin, the first college to open its 
doors to women on an equality with 
men, and to the colored race, and 
from many other colleges where colored 
girls have studied, they have won 
honors for themselves and for their 
race. Fully ninety per cent of the 
colored women who are working for 
their race are in the back woods of the 
south, where their labors are not in 
the sight of the public eye. 
The National Association of Colored 
Women was formed to enlist all women 
of the race in helping to build up 
the whole race, for we believe that if 
left entirely to the men, our progress 
would be slow. The association labors 
largely through the home, to effect its 
object. Mothers' Congresses are the 
leading sub-organizations, and they 
have met with signal success. 
In many sections of the south, under 
the evil influence of plantation owners, 
the condition of the colored people 
is no better than it was before the 
war. The Association provides for 
them, talks on social purity, encourages 
them to send their children to 
school, teaches them how to cook, 
wash, men, take care of their homes, 
etc. in the best manner. 
Much as has been said against the 
morality of colored women, statistics 
will show that they are not so depraved 
as as white women in similar circumstances, 
as found in European 
countries. These figures give encouragement 
to our race. 

Schools for theoretical and practical 
education are established and others 
are being started all over the south. 
Many trained nurses among the women 
of the race are patronized by the best 
people of the south. Miss Laney's 
wonderful work in founding the Haines 
Industrial School, which now has 
buildings worth $20,000 and over 500 
pupils, is but one of many examples of 
work and sacrifice by colored women. 
We are told that the colored youth 
are criminally inclined. Much of this 
criminality is due to the poor, degraded 
homes from which these youths 
come. 
Colored women are everywhere 
reaching out after the little children, 
in order that they may have proper 
training at the beginning of their 
lives, at least. 
Kindergarten schools are being established, 
and day nurseries are now 
helping poor mothers to have good 
care taken of their babies while they 
work during the day. Many poor 
mothers are compelled to lock their 
infants in their little hovel-homes all 
day, while they are away at work. 
Others are compelled to board their 
babes out to careless families, at a 
cheap rate. Many instances of deformity 
and death result from this 
awful but necessary treatment. In 
the kindergarten schools the little 
ones are impressed with the importance 
of having pure thoughts and 
motives, and of doing their best to 
benefit their brethren. 
Schools for the aged are also established, 
but the greater attention 
and effort are spent on the little ones, 
whose characters are yet pliable and 
in whom lies the hope of the race. 
The motto of the Association is 
"Lifting While We Climb." We often 
are discouraged because we cannot 
induce our own sisters to accept our 
aid, but as this trouble is general with 
all races, we take hope again. The 
movement against employing colored 
women in many of the large institutions 
of the country is a serious menace 
to our race. Employers say that 
colored women are neither skillful nor 
reliable. As many of our families depend 
upon the mothers for their support, 
we are impressing upon our women 
that they must overcome these 
objections or the race will not rise. It 
is easy for a white mother's heart to 
thrill as she gazes at her baby's face, 
for to the little one every avenue of 
success is open, if he but has ability 
and ambition. To the colored 
mother's heart there can be no such
 thrill, but rather a tremble of despair, 
for she knows that no matter how ambitious 
of able her child may be, every 
avenue he enters will be blocked by 
prejudice, every attempt at success 
he makes will be opposed and overthrown 
if possible by the dominating 
race, because they have no trust in 
him. We are asking that the dominant 
race teach their children to be 
broad and generous enough to judge 

all and treat all according to their intrinsic 
worth. In the name of our 
children we plead for at least fair 
treatment, so that our children may 
be raised with hope of success in life. 
The health of the colored race, because 
of poorly provided home and 
poor clothing, has become a serious 
problem. 
Our women are acquiring fame as 
business managers, dress-makers, dentists, 
doctors, and even sculptors, 
painters and musicians. 
We are trying to teach our r[] 
the double standard of morals between
the sexes, among the white race [?] 
gross and fearful error, and [?]
women must be kept pure by having
nothing to do with men who are not
pure. 
Against all the iniquitous laws and
prejudices against us in the south, we 
are raising our most powerful hand 
and judging from the marvelous progress 
of our race under such discouraging 
surroundings, we believe and 
console ourselves with the thought 
that the darkest hour is just before 
the dawn, and that what may seem to 
us discouraging now, may be but the 
fore-runner of the bright day that is 
coming for our race.

DAILY NEWS.
W.B. JEWELL, - - EDITOR
DANVILLE, ILL.
TUESDAY - - AUGUST 14, 1900

CHAUTAUQUA
The Best of the Program
is Yet to be
Given.
MRS. TERRELL'S LECTURE

Her Facts Were Carefully Gathered,
Fairly Stated, and Show Progress 
of Colored Women

—Today's Program.
MRS. TERRELL'S LECTURE.
Mrs. Mary Terrell, president
of the National Association of Colored
Women, gave her lecture on "The
Progress of the Colored Woman," at
2:30 p.m. yesterday, to a large and 
attentive audience.  Most of those who
heard this elegant lady's lecture on
Harriet Beacher Stowe last night,
which netted larger gate receipts than
any night lecture so far in the course)
were present to hear this lecture.  The
lecture on Mrs. Stowe was not only
rich in matter, but the perfect bearing
of Mrs. Terrell, her elegant but well
contained diction, showing so fully
the thorough scholar, the perfect lady
and calm philosopher, were assurance
that she would give the facts fairly as
to the progress of the colored women
since emancipation.  Her hearers were
not disappointed; her facts are carefully
gathered, fairly stated and show
progress along the lines of making of
colored women better wives, homekeepers
and mothers; also in establishing
sanitariums, schools, homes for
old people and kindred work; also of
the fact that in literature and all the
professions, arts and sciences the colored
people have representatives of 
distinction.
Mrs. Terrell gave two of the best
lectures so far in the course, and
should she come this way again she
will be heartily welcomed and have
even a better hearing.  It may be
interesting to state that she was born
about the close of the war of parents
who had been slaves and graduated
from Oberlin college; her husband
was also born of slave parents, is a
graduate of Harvard college and was
one of six who gained the honors of
his class; he is now superintendent of
the colored schools of the District of
Columbia.  Mr. and Mrs. Terrell are
themselves a proof of the progress of
those who wore the cruel, depressing
yoke of bondage for over two centuries.
Mrs. Terrell well deserves the title,
"the female Booker T. Washington,"
though she needs not the title to aid
her on her way in the intellectual and
oratorical world.  Her addresses are
the pure gold with less dross of nonsense
than any lecturer that has come
upon the stage at this Chautauqua.
From the first word to the last she
has something to say, and says it as
cultured lady in the best of English,
which has no tinge of the high falootin
or the sensational.  Such speakers
are rare.  She should be paid to travel
as a model of good English and good
manners.

[?] concerts we have ever had.
They will come again [?] went wild.
[*The Rostrum Dec 1903*]
THE HALL MEMORIAL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL of 
Massilon, Ohio, will be formally opened Jan. 
12.  On this occasion the Women's Friendly 
Institute will present the following speakers:
Mrs. Rosetta Douglass Sprague, daughter of 
the late Frederick Douglass, Mrs. Jerome 
Jeffries, state organizer of the National Association 
of Colored Women; and Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell of Washington.
[Ashley W [?]]

TELLS OF PROGRESS OF COLORED RACE
Mrs. Mary C. Terrell. a colored woman of Washington, D.C., addressed a meeting of the School Voters League today on "The Progress and Problem of the Colored Woman." The meeting was one of the series on "Women and the State," conducted by the league. She told of the rise of the colored people in America, of the struggle to overcome the race prejudices and of the work that is being done in  their behalf, not only by the white race, but also by their own people. Mrs. Terrell, herself college bred, told of the educational advance made by her race and of the moral advance being made by them. During the  lecture she told of her hopes and of the hopes of all colored women toward placing their race higher in the social and educational plane and appealed for the moral aid of her hearers. 

Woman's World
WORK FOR HUMANITY
[*Minn. Journal*]
Womens' Movement Forcefully Presented 
by May Wright Sewall.
[*Nov. 1900*]
THE NEW INTERNATIONALISM
Women Are Peculiarly Fitted for 
Bringing About Sympathy Between 
the Nations.

The meetings of the National Council of 
Women yesterday showed a great increase 
in interest and enthusiasm and quite surpassed 
all the anticipations even of enthusiastic 
council women. The principal 
address of the public meetings
 was given last night by Mrs. May Wright Sewall, 
president of the International Council, 
who made a powerful presentation of the 
motives and purposes of the movement
 for international cooperation in work for 
humanity.   The occasion and the influences 
of the hour seemed to inspire all 
of the speakers of the day and the effect 
was a degree of magnetic response and influence 
that sent a thrill through all in the 
audiences.  Apathy was quite impossible 
under the spell of the stirring words of 
all of the speakers.  Mrs. Sewall said in
 her address:

It is our aim to strengthen the spirit of 
nationalism. We seek to get acquainted with 
each other.  Our whole life, in fact, may be
 summed up, from its broadest standpoint, in
 getting acquainted with some one whose 
views, antecedents, environment, opportunities 
and native faculties are different from our own.

It is a revelation to a woman to get acquainted 
with another woman of whom she 
has formerly spoken as "not of my kind." 
She may find that her kind may be improved, 
and that is a great step toward unity of 
thought and purpose.

There are at present ten national councils 
belonging to the international body, including 
the United States, Great Britain, Canada,

MRS. EMMILINE B. WELLS,
Of Salt Lake, Utah, Second Recording Secretary.

 Germany, New South Wales, Sweden, Denmark, 
New Zealand, Holland and Tasmania.

Each year it is growing more necessary 
that there should be a new internationalism. 
Under the old internationalism people slew 
those whom they went to see before they 
had a chance to get acquainted.

I think women can do this work of getting 
acquainted better than men, though I am 
sorry to be able to say there is anything 
they can do better. It is because we are less 
liable to greed and controversy, and our 
sympathies are sooner awakened.

In our practical work we have formed three 
committees, work in which all may unite, 
for we refuse to act until we find a standard 
upon which all can agree. We unite in social 
peace and arbitration, laws for the betterment 
of social relations, and propogating 
the knowledge of our work through the press.

Our plan of action is so broad it means a 
revised map of the world--a thing, by the
 way, which all nations are really talking 
about. We work to expansion to the point
 the individual shall feel his identity with 
God.

Dr. Cora Smith Eaton as representative
of the "National American Woman's Suffrage
Assoication, pointed out the services 
of that organization to women in general 
and to the women of the council through
its owrk to broaden the opportunities of 
women and through the leadership of its 
great advicates, Miss Susan B. Anthony
and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Mrs. Dell P. Glazier, president of the 
Rathbone sisters, set forth the progress
of that order which has a membership  of 
63,528 members, and is working along 
charitable and insurance lines.

Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, speaking for 
the National Council of Jewish Women 
of which she is president, explained that 
the organization is a religious one. She 
said:

In charity the Jew stands highest of all.
The end and aim of education is to build up 
character. If every cent that is given to 
small colleges throughout the land were given
for the cause of philanthropy the standard
of society would be raised.

I do not underestimate the value of education .
It is the greatest preventive force we 
know; but I must agree with the socialists,

DR KATE WALLER BARRETT,
Of Washington , D.C. Corresponding Secretary.

that our most serious problems are economic.
Outside of prisons the only redress for the 
evils of society are in the philanthropic
movements, and I count him the best citizen 
whose money flows most freely into the 
coffers of charity.

Mrs. Mary Church Terrell spoke of "The
Progress of the Colored Race," eloquently 
and clearly, deeply impressing her words 
upon those who listened. She said:

The advance that colored women have
made should be measured rather from the 
depths from which they have come than by
the heights to which their sisters of 
the dominant race have attained with their hundreds
of years of culture and advantage behind 
them. It is less than forty years since 
the colored woman emerged from a state
which put a premium on immorality and 
made chastity impossible, and even n ow, save
in a few cases, the vocations which are open 
to colored women, so that they are able to 
eke out the scantiest living even if they have
but one drop of African blood in their veins.
We are not only hampered by our sex, we 
are hampered by our race.

We are working for the abolition of Jim
Crow car law, the building of day nurseries,

the schooling of women for domestics, and
the establishment of kindergartens. Ou?
motto is "Lifting as We Climb." We ask 
no favor because of out color nor patronage
because of our n?eds. We are trying to impress 
upon the women of our race the establishing 
of a reputation for skilled labor and 
excellence in all that we do, that the stigma 
may be utterly removed.

Reports From Societies.

Yesterday afternoon the reports from 
the societies of the council were received
and were listened to with great interest,
as they touched upon many vital points.
Mrs. Durgin read the report from the National
Free Baptist Women's Missionary 
Society describing the work in India and 
among the colored race. Mrs. Emmaline

MRS. ELIZABETH B. GRANNIS,
President National Christina League for the 
Promotion of Social Purity.

B. Wells, Utah, gave an interesting account 
of the National Women's Relief Society.
The project is to provide work for 
unemployed women, and also train women 
so they may be self-supporting. The silk 
industry is patronized extensively, and domestic
activities strengthened. Professional 
nurses are ??ained who in return 
give some of their services for charity.
A woman's building will soon be erected 
opposite the Salt Lake temple.

Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis of Nationa?
Christian League for the Promotion o?
Social Purity, after showing the work
done in suppressing immoral shows, compared 
New York and Utah in purity o?
married relations, to the decided disadvantage
of the empire state. There is no
law protecting these relations in the eastern 
state, and this Mrs. Grannis strenuously 
deplored.

Mrs. M.B. Cleveland spoke of the National 
Association of Business Women, 
which has grown from the Association of 
Women Stenographers. The object is for 
the social advantage of their members, and 
they have done much in finding employment 
for them, and for providing headquarters
whole waiting for employment.

The Loyal Women of American Liberty
were represented by Mrs. I. C. Manchester, 
whose antiexpansion sentiments 
created a decided ripple of interest. The 
aim of the society is patriotic and religious.
 Mrs. Mary Lord Carr spoke for 
The Woman's Relief Corps, dwelling upon 
its broad, charitable work.

The Florence Crittendon missions were 
represented in the discussion by Mrs. Kate
Waller Barrett. A special appropriation 
has been made by the government for this 
work, so that it has the prestige of the 
sanction of the country.

Greetings were received during the day 
from Miss Susan B. Anthony and Alfred 
H. Love, president of the Universal Peace
Union.

It was announced that Rev. Anna Garlin 
Spencer would remain over and speak 
to-morrow night at the Johnson music
hall on "The Development of the Family."

Business Women Receive.
A pleasant feature closely associated 
with the council meetings yesterday was 
a very informal re???tion given at 

MRS. J. C. MANCHESTER
Of Providence, R.I., President of the National 
Association of Loyal Women of American 
Liberty.

o'clock by the ?usiness Women's Club
at this clubrooms in honor of the representatives
 of the National Association of 
Business Women who are in the city attending 
the Nat??nal Council of Women.
 The guests o? honor were Miss Matae
Cleveland, pres??dent; Miss Gertrude
Beeks, past preside?t; Miss Alice Manning
and Miss R. B. Holmes. The guests 
were received by th? club president, Miss
Martha Scott Ander?n. The pretty club
rooms were brighte?ed with yellow 
white and red chrysa?themums. Chololate
and wafers were se?ved by Mrs. Margaret 
Taylor, Miss Marg?ret Harrison and 
Miss Elizabeth Liscomb  Brief informal 
addresses were made by Miss Cleveland
and Miss Beeks, who sk?tched the outlinees 
of the organization ?hich they represented 
and gave the local organization a 
cordial invitation to affiliate with the national 
association for mutual benefit.

One object the national association had 
in sending a strong delegation to Minneapolis 
to the council meeting was to look 
over the local field with a view to forming 
a local organization and the surprise of 
the Chicago women in finding a flourishing 
club devoted to the interests of business
women already in existence was 
equaled only by their pleasure. Their
congratulations to the club on its excellent
record and prospects were hearty and sincere.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1900.

The Colored High school.

The enrollment of the Colored High 
School for this year is the largest in 
the history of this famous educational 
institution. The total enrollment to 
date is 735  Of this number 204 are 
boys and 531 are girls.
The school, h[o]wever,
will not reach its highest
enrollment until 
October when it is 
likely to reach 750 This 
is a very gratifying
showing and is a good 
index of the ambition 
of our people to educate
their boys and 
girls. The prospect of a four years 
course does not deter them in the least.
It may not be generally know but the 
Colored High School of this city is one 
of the best equipped high schools in 
the country in the way of laboratories 
and it has a corps of 30 teachers, the 
most of whom have been trained in the 
best universities of America. In addition 
to the regular body of instructors
there are about ten special teachers in 
drawing, music, physical culture, etc.
The battalion under the charge of Major 
Arthur Brooks is already hard at work.
the examination for the positions of 
commissioned officers will be held next
Tuesday. Prof. R. H. Terrell, the 
principal has already effected a splendid 
organization of his unusually large
number of students.


JUBILEE SINGERS 
AT LAFAYETTE HIGH 
[*Buffalo, N.Y.*] 
Pupils Applaud Music and
Speeches by Colored
Educators. 
[*Oct.22, 23, 24, 1912*] 
Lafayette High school pupils and
faculty enjoyed a rare treat yesterday
morning when the quartette of jubilee
singers who are in town for the meeting
of the American Missionary union
of First Congregational church sang
plantation melodies and colored educators
talked on the uplift of the negro. 
The pupils were delighted with
the plantation melodies and the applause
which fairly rocked the building
would have made glad the heart of
many a theatrical manager who complain 
of cold audiences.  The jubilee
singers will rarely find a finer welcome 
and tribute to their music than Lafayette
gave them.  In turn the boys
and girls of the school sang some of
their songs and gave cheers, so that
the visitors might fain an idea of
Lafayette field day jollifications. 
The quartette is composed of Mrs. C. 
O. Hadley, soprano;  Mrs. J. W. Work,
contralto;  Prof. J. W. Work, tenor,
and A. G. price, basso, Prof. Work,
who was one of the speakers, is an instructor
at Fisk university, Nashville,
Tenn., and it was with interest that
his story was heard of how just after 
the Civil War a band of nine young
colored men and women just out of 
slavery was formed known as "The 
Fiske Jubilee Singers," went out from 
Nashville and made a tour of the
world, bringing back with them for
the university $150,000. 
Mrs. Mary Church Terell of Washington,
D. C., one of the leaders of the
colored race, for some time the head
of the colored women's federation and
for eleven years a member of the board
of education at Washington, made a
convincing appeal for recognition of
the strides the colored race has made
since freed from slavery, and in education 
and in acquisition of property, and 
asked eloquently for an equal chance
for the negro with the white man of
woman to earn a living and for equality
in the law. 
Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard university,
Washington, in most apt application
of an algebraic problem, upheld
the duty of the man or woman who is
favored in life to bring from the dependant
or negative state, past the
equality or complacent stage, over 
onto the positive, forceful side, those
who are less favored. 
At the close of the programme the
Lafayette orchestra, under the direction
of Prof. Slekman, played. 
From Lafayette the singers went to
Buffalo seminary. 

[*Mar 22 1912
be American 
[?Wagoner Wagoner Co]*] 
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell
The Federation of Women's
Clubs are discussing and planning
for the anticipated visit to
this city of Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell, wife of Judge Terrell of
Washington, D. C., a woman who 
enjoys the especial distinction of
having won for herself in the
field of advancement  of Negro
womanhood, eminent  credit and
honor, just as her husband has
in the arena of law and the wider
field of race promotion. 
It may be well for Muskogeeans
to understand  just whom
they are to entertain in fullest
degree.  Mrs. Terrell has not only
been the honored guest of Negro
organizations, but also of societies
in Eastern and Northern
States composed of whites, who 
were delighted by her clear and 
eloquent advocacy of principles
upon which racial promotion both
black and white, through elevation
of womanhood to the highest
eminence, can alone be accomplished. 
It behooves all women
and men alike to meet and arrange
for the appropriate reception
and care  of such a woman
as Mrs. Mary Church Terrell.  It
should be seen too, that never in
after years should there ever be
any cause for her to regret in
slightest degree the visit to Muskogee. 



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FIRDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1911 
NOTED SPEAKER WILL COME TO COLUMBUS 
Mrs. Terrell, of Washington, D. C., Will Address the National Purity Association. 
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington D. C. has accepted an invitation to deliver an address before the National Purity Association when it convenes in Columbus, the 23rd to the 27th of this month. By many, Mrs. Terrell is regarded as one of the most brilliant of women orators in this country, and she has an international reputation as a speaker. Perhaps no American woman ever achieved the triumph she did abroad. When she spoke in Berlin, at the International Congress of Women, she was able to deliver one address in excellent German, and one equally good in French. This achievement on the part of a colored women, added to her fine appearance and the eloquence of her words, carried the audience by storm, and she had to respond three times to the encores before they were satisfied. 
The German newspapers asserted that it was more than a personal triumph: it was a triumph for her race. Mrs. Terrell has had to refuse many invitations to speak this year, and thus far has consented to deliver but two addresses this fall, one before the National Purity Association, and one before the Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science in November, on whose program appears Governor Judson Harmon, President Charles Eliot, President Schurman, and other distinguished educators and public men. 
Mrs. Terrell is one of Oberlin's most honored graduates. After her graduation from Oberlin she studied abroad for four years in the best institutions of Germany, France and Italy. When she spoke in New York last fall she was greeted by one of the largest and most cultured audiences, New York's "Four Hundred" turning our en masse to hear her, and to patronize her with social honros because of her brillinacy. She holds her audiences spellbound with her almost matchless eloquence. Columbus people are fortunate in that they will have an opportunity, this month, to hear this brilliant woman orator. 


PURITY LEAGUE ADJOURNS AFTER RAPPING WILSON AND 'FRISCO 
Columbus Citizen Oct 12 1911 
Condemning Secretary Wilson for acting as honorary president of the brewers' congress at Chicago, denouncing San Francisco as unfit for the Panama exposition, asking a strict censorship if moving picture shows, asking federal anti-polygamy laws and uniform marriage and divorce laws, indorsing the Iowa red light injunction law and the international and national fight against obscenity, urging congress to pass laws and to allow an appropriation to enforce the white slave traffic act and expressing confidence in Commissioner Williams of Ellis Island, the sixth international purity congress brought its business sessions to a close laye Friday at the Chamber of Commerce by adopting nine resolutions. 
The delegates had previously changed a resolution indorsing Mayor Marshall for his war on the social evil to one thanking him and others for their courtesy and hospitality, upon motion of John B. Hammond of Des Moines. The next biennial conference will probably be held at Toronto, and starting Jan. 21 officials of the federation will do on a two months' evangelistic tour of cities in Nova Scotia, Canada, Cuba, Bermuda and several of the eastern and southern states. 
COLORED WOMAN SPEAKS. 
At the closing session Friday night Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington, honorary president of the National Council of Colored Women and member of the board of education of Washington, herself a colored woman, spoke on "The Colored Race and Moral Reform." She said in part: 
"White women will never reach the high moral standard they seek until they her colored sister is given a chance. Vice districts, beaten from place to place in most cities, are driven into sections inhabited by colored people. What, therefore, can you expect from the colored race?" 
SCORES CHEAP THEATER. 
Rev. Robert Watson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant of Cincinnati, spoke on "The Social Evil and Amusement." He scored the cheap theater, the physician that advises young men to indulge in social evil, and warned parents to never let their children out of their sight. He declared that out of hundreds of immoral cases in children he had found that the skating rink, the theater, buggy riding and even going in pairs to church had played their part. He pleaded with fathers and mothers to learn how to play with their children." 
Dr. Emma F. A. Drake of Denver also spoke, declaring that indifference was the greatest friend of social evil.  


Mrs. Terrell Converted White Students. 
Special to the New York Age. 

Washington, D. C., March 17, 1913. -- Mrs. Mary Church Terrell recently, on invitation, addressed the students of Wellesley College, <Feb 26> on the subject of "Opportunities for Colored Girls." In her address she pleaded for equal opportunities for the young women of her race, and recited the handicap under which they labor, the hurtful lack of opportunity confronting them in every line of work. As showing how much her address was appreciated, and the interest it awakened among the young women of Wellesley College, Mrs. Terrell is in reciept of the following letter from Mary Eliza Clark, president of the Christian Association of Wellesley College: 
Dear Mrs. Terrrell: 
I was sorry not to be able to see you during your recent visit to Wellesley, for then I should have told you in person what I want to tell you in a letter. I want to speak for the girls of Wellesley. I think you probably know the feeling of the faculty. I am anxious for your to know how greatly the girls appreciate your coming such a distance to speak to us. The interest in your subject was shown by the fact that quite a number of girls who do not regularly attend the Christian Association meetings came to your meeting Wednesday night. As to your presentation of the subject, its effect can be judged by the fact that your talk has been discussed very widely among the girls representing every type in college. I don't know when a speaker has aroused so much interest and changed so many ideas in so short a time. Some girls had no conception of the problems or the means used to solve them; other were prejudiced merely because of hearsay. One Southern girl was very reluctant to go to the meeting, but after it was over, she had not a word of criticism to offer. I want you to feel that your visit here was distinctly worth while, and that Wellesley  people of broadest minds and widest sympathies feel a distinct debt of gratitude to you for the strong presentation of your subject. I hope that you will not for a moment feel that this is empty praise. It is my opportunity to know many girls of different points of view, and it is only after hearing wide discussion that I say this to you. I trust that some time there will be another opportunity for you to visit Wellesley, and meanwhile feel tha tthis visit was vastly worth while, and accept our hearty wishes for your work. 

Feb 28, 1913 
NEGRO WOMEN'S PROGRESS. 
Mrs. Terrell Tells What Her Race Is Doing in the South 
[ ] first of three Brooklyn Institute lectures on "The Negro Race in the United States," Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, a member of Board of Education, Washington D. C., spoke in the lecture hall, []emy of Music, yesterday afternoon, the Emancipation Proclamation and Development of Christian Womanhood in the South." She said that, considering the insurmountable obstacles confronting colored women, the progress made by them in comparison to their more forutnate sister is very favorable indeed and that she said this "with pardonable pride." She told of the many homes for the aged, day nurseries, kindergartens, and hospitals that the colored women support, mentioning especially a hospital in New Orleans, with training school and a home in Pittsburg, Pa. As an aid in the support of the latter, the managers give a dinner once a year, and actually cleared $1,000 in their last venture. In Alabama last year, colored women were successful in founding a reformatory for boys. 
Conditions under which colored people are forced to live, their environment in cities, is such that the bringing up of children in purity and with good morals, is only to be accomplished with dificulty that the white mother does not experience. The report of the Chicago vice committee put this condition plaingly before the people of the United States, and Mrs. Terrell's comment was that all womanhood in a country must suffer if one group of women is forced by circumstances that are almost overwhelming, to live a low life. Colored mothers cannot inspire their children with hope, because it is so very hard for colored people to get along, as so many occupations are closed against them. "Colored boys and girls should hae the same security under the law as white boys and girls," said Mrs. Terrell, asking, in closing, for "equality of opportunity." 


Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, D. C., is in great deman by colleges and high school of the country as a lecturer, and never fails to make an effective appeal in the interest of our people she has addressed the student body of Ratcliffe College and recently delivered an address before the student body of Wellesley. The president of the Christian Association, in writing Mrs. Terrell concerning her visit, said: "I don't know when a speaker has aroused so much interest and changed so many ideas in so short a time. Some girls had no conception of the problems or the means used to solve them; others were prejudiced merely because of hearsay. One Southern girl was very reluctant to do to the meeting, but, after it was over, she had not a word of adverse criticism to offer. I want you to feel that your visit here was distinctly  worth while, and that the Wellesley people of broadest minds and broadest sympathies feel a distinct debt of gratitude to you for the strong presentation of your subject.: 

Southern Christian Advocate Mar. 27 1913 


"Lifting as We Climb." 
Sixth Annual Session 
Tennessee State Federation 
Colored Women's Clubs 
Logan Temple Church 
Knoxville, - - Tennessse 
July 8, 9, 10, 1914 
Mrs. N. E. Whiteman, President, Memphis 
Mrs. G. L. Jackson, First Vice-President, Nashville 
Mrs. J. L. Murray, Second Vice-President, Jackson 
Mrs. W. A. Johnson, Recording Secretary, Jackson 
Mrs. F. P. Cooper, Corresponding Secretary Memphis 
Mrs. Fowler, Organizer, Jackson 

Fifty years of almost miraculous progress in the life of the American Negro have furnished facts and important events for many eminent historians of color. Dwelling as we do in a land, owned and governed by another people centuries before our introduction thereunto, such annals cannot so soon consist of thrilling narratives of war and conquest, or extraordinary policital ventures, but of the development of great characters, their work, and its influence upon the general growth of the race. All history, in truth, is a verbal relation of past occurences, their causes and effects,--each event but the outcome of a strong, ambitious mind's thought, or conception of what he deemed right, just or expedient for the welfare of the people, state or nation of which he was a loyal constituent. In Afro-American history as in that of other people, woman figures conspicuously. Along with her Richard and her Cromwell Great Britain boasts of the stalwart patriotism of her Marys, Elizabeth and beloved Victoria; --in paying homage to its Napoleon and its Victor Hugo, France never forgets its Joan d'Arc--remembering with pleasure its ancient pomp and splendor, declinding Egypt honors not its Pharohs and Ptolemys without fitting tribute to its proud, beautiful and powerful Cleopatra. Hence in the same exultant strain, the child of Ethiopia lauds the greatness of her Carney and her Harriet Tubman, her Douglass and her Phillis Wheatley; her Washington and her Nannie Burroughs; her DuBois and her Mary Church Terrell. 
But before we proceed further with the subject of this sketch, the writer would call attention to the debt the Negro owes the good women of the dominant race, some of whom have done so much for our advancement, morrally, educationally, spiritually and otherwise. William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Summer and John Brown worked arduously in the abolition movement but the heart of the world remained unmoved against the great evil od traffic in human lives as carried on in Southern states of America until from the pen of Harriet Beecher Stowe went that powerful production, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," from whose pages rose the cries of the mother at the auction block, her babe torn from her breast, and whose words, ladened with the pleadings of the man beneath the lash, aroused, righteous indignation the world over and precipitated the struggle, the outcome of which meant our freedom. 
Nor can we forget Sister Joanna P. Moore, of Nashville, who through her "Fireside School" and flood of literature, has helped and purified many Negro homes and hearts. 
The Institution that has done most in the training of Negro women, hence the greatest force for good, and the largest institution of its kind in the world is the product of Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles, two cultured New England women who soon after the smoke and roar of cannon cleared away came to the city of Atlanta, Ga., and 'mid most tryign circumstances, founded Spelman Seminary, whose influence is used not only to hasten the development of the American Negro, but to civilize and christianize our brothers who remain in the home-land, Africa. 
We should err exceedingly, if in these writings, given to Famous Women in Race Development, we failed to make grateful mention of these self-sacrificing friends among the white women. 
Mary Church Terrell, a women of whom we are justly proud and a splendid example of the possibilities of Negro Womanhood, was born in Memphis, Tenn., the daughter of the late Robert Church of that city, one of the wealthiest colored men of this nation. The great spirit of hope and optimism which has actuated Mrs. Terrell's entire life and endeavor, may be justified and fuly accounted for by the fact that unlike most of our great characters, she was never a child of poverty. From early childhood she was given the very best advantages for culture and refinement and shielded from any environment that might have adversely affected her nature during the impressionable years of her life. Her college training was received at Oberlin College, from which has come many of the brilliant literary lights of our race. Having graduated from that institution, Miss Church went abroad, specializing in different branches in famous schools of Paris and Rome. Her grace and intelligence won for her many friends among the prominent people of the great European cities. 
Probably no other Negro woman save perhaps Mrs. Portia Washington Pittman, formerly of Tuskegee, has had such brilliant opportunities as had Miss Church. So weak and deficient were the Negro schools of that day, that this young women educated and placed in association with white women throughout her early career, thus being drawn away from the poor, struggling, ignorant masses of her own infant race. Like Moses, however, with sympathetic yearning to see her own standard, Miss Church returned to America determinded to contribute her best effort toward that end. 
For several years she taught in the High School of Dayton, Ohop, and during that time received the degree of Master of Arts, and the offer of a position on the faculty of Oberlin College, a great honor of a Negro woman. Having decided to become the wife of Mr. Terrell, a poor, selfmade, but aspiring lawyer of Washington, she declined this offer, and having become Mrs. Terrell settled in the Capital City, where she enjoys until today the respect and admiration of the noblest and best of both races. 
Because of her extraordinary literary and financial blessings, she is able to do double duty to her home and two little girls, and to work demanding her attention away from home, of which we shall speak later on. We mention this fact because the writer agrees with the London folk who think that the extremely radical suffragette who leaves home and little ones to parade the streets, burn halls, etc., it creating a new axiom, "The hand that rocks the windows, ruins the world," in lieu of the one we so often quote. 
Mrs. Terrell is generally recognized to be the most polished and eloquent lecturer among Negro women. Her services are sought by the leading organizations and institutions of the country. Her thoughts are profound and logical and her delivery, clear and fluent, excelled only by the striking grace, charm and personality, which lend dignity and force to her words. The audience can readily see in her the woman of hope, gentility, and refinement, which her sppech idealized. Especially popular is her speech, "Why I am an Optimist." 
Articles contributed to leading magazines, as well as a booklet written by Mrs. Terrell have made her famous as an author and writer as well as a speaker. Her life of Harriet Beecher Stowe has won the commendation of present day authorities in English style and diction. 
She is a faithful member of Licoln Congregational Church and a person sure to be found allied with every movement for the uplift of her people in Washington and vicinity. For several years she enjoyed the peculiar honor and distinction of serving as a member of the school board of the District of Columbia. What an evidence of the appreciation of her talent and worth! Much of the excellence of school facilities in Washington can be attributed to her efforts as a member of the school board. Largely through her ingenuity and influence her husband received and retained the appointment of Judge in the District Court. On March 5, 1909, the ceremony incident to the presentation of the Loving Cup to Senator J. B. Foraker for his noble defnese of the Negro soldiers in the Brownsville affair, a glowing tribute was paid Mrs. Terrell for her action in the matter, by which the President's order for dismissal without trial was withheld twenty-four hours later than had been planned, because of her conference with the president and Secretary Taft, in behalf of the outraged men of her race. With dignity, she for several years served as president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. During that time she represented Afro-American womanhood at the World's Convention of Women in Berlin, Germany, at which meeting she was the one woman of foreign birth who could deliver her address fluently in the German tongue. Every Negro woman at home was benefitted by the honors she won abroad.  

[*Washington Sun, Nov. 27, 1914*]
Mrs. Terrell Before the School Voters'
League in Boston.
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell has returned 
home after a most successful
trip to New England, where she made
several addresses to the most important
groups of social workers in that
section of the country.  She addressed
the School Voters' League in Boston,
the Forum in Melrose, the Open Forum
in Cambridge, and had the unusual
honor of sitting on the bench with
Judge Baker in the Juvenile Court in
Boston.
The Boston press was very complimentary 
in reference to Mrs. Terrell's 
speeches ; several of the papers carrying
lengthy accounts and cuts of

it in Italian.  To us she will tell it in
strong and forceful English.  Women 
orators are comparatively rare, but
Mrs. Terrell is one of them.  Boston 
women, especially, should give heed
to her words.  For it was from a notable
group of Boston women that
the first impetus for the abolition of
slavery emanated.  Physical freedom,
without economic freedom, is however,
of little worth, and Boston is
far from being as generous now as it
used to be in its attitude toward the
Negro.  The case of the educated colored
girl is unspeakably tragic.  But 
some colored women, like Mrs. Terrell
herself, have been able to overcome 
all obstacles and it is of the
things they have accomplished, and
of how we may help their sisters to
similar successes, that this lecture 
will tell us."


[*The Washington Sun -*]
MRS. TERREL WINNING
HONORS IN WEST
[*June 18, 1915*]
Defends Negro Womanhood Before
Woman's Congress of
Missions.
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of
Washington, was honored at the
Women's Congress of Missions,
which closed yesterday at San Francisco, 
with four speaking assignments
on the program of the congress.  Last
Friday evening Mrs. Terrell was one
of the after-dinner speakers at a
banquet for young women, a feature 
of the congress.  Saturday evening
she delivered an address on "The
Progress and the Problem of the
Colored Woman."  Sunday afternoon
Mrs. Terrell was the speaker chosen 
to represent the Negro race in a symposium
of "The Voices of the Women."
Yesterday morning Mrs. Terrell 
delivered one of a group of addresses 
on the meaning and purpose
of the congress, the session being held
in festival hall at the Panama-Pacific
Exposition.
Mrs. Terrell was specially invited
to attend the congress as a representative 
of the colored women of the
United States.

[*The New Age,*]
LOS ANGELES, CAL., JUNE 25 1915
Lecture of Famous Woman Under Auspices of Dumas
Lyceum Bureau, Makes Lasting Impression

MRS. MARY CHURCH-TERRELL, OF WASHINGTON, D. C.
Noted Speaker and Traveller who is Charmed With Los Angeles,


[*New Age, June 25, 1915*]                               [*2d sheet*]
Mary Church Terrell, noted speaker 
and leader of women, came and
seeing, both conquered and was conquered. 
Her address of  Friday night
has been the topic of the week. Few
 of the many noted characters who
have visited the west have made so
good an impression upon Angelenos
and certainly none have appeared so
genuinely take with the city and people. 
Said a prominent person, "The
Dumas Lyceum Bureau has scored
again. Mary Church Terrell proved 
all she was represented to be and the 
East and West are being drawn
closer together as such splendid 
types of our representatives as Mrs. 
Terrell are met."
A warm greeting was given the
noted Washingtonian, applause and
flowers were hers in profusion and
the representative audience gave
many evidences of its appreciative
hearing. Many Oberlin graduates
and probable early educational associates 
were present and the school
atmosphere was further given by
the charming young women, recent
high school graduates who acted as
ushers and presented flowers at the 
close of the address. Prof. Bynum
directed choruses by the First A.M.
E. choir, which completely filled the 
large choir loft and seated upon the
rostrum were prominent members of
the Dumas Bureau and Rev McMickens, 
who delivered the invocation. 
There was a piano solo by
Miss Naida McCullough, a solo by
Mrs. Gould and a piano duet by the
Misses May and Inez Jones.
Dr. A.C. Garrott, president of the 
bureau, presented Mrs. Terrell
Whose hold was quickly taken upon 
the audience.
Mrs. Terrell is truly an orator
with a wonderful flow of language,
masterful in thought and brilliant in
presentation. She is intensely Racial
and of impressive sincerity and Friday 
night's treatment of the general
Race problem was splendidly illustrative
of those features. 
Hers was a plea for the hopeful 
view and absolute belief in the future. 
She contended that the Race
has a history. Eulogized great representatives, 
the Race soldier and declared 
her strong convictions that
the future of the Race is based upon
work the women are doing and plead
that more be done for the young
women of the Race.
A caustic comment upon lynching 
brought forth the witty expression:
"My friends, remember that some 
men are born black, others have 
blackness thrust upon them and still
others achieve blackness."
"I have been asked why I use the 
word Colored American instead of
the grand old word Negro. It gives
opportunity for the use of the word
Negress, which I have been called 
so much that I am sore. It will take
our women hundreds of years to live
down the reproach and contempt in
the word."
Continued applause followed Mrs. 
Terrell's eloquent peroration and
then the audience surged forward for
greeting. Mesdames J. Scott, K. 
Barr and others, formed the receiving 
line. The Misses Inez Bailey, 
Dorothy Rena, Miriam Garrott, 
Mary Blodgett and Cornelia Leggett
acted as ushers.
During her stay in the city, Mrs. 
Terrell stopped at the beautiful residence 
of Mrs. S.H. Pool at 35th and 
Raymond Ave., where prominent 
people of the whole city called, an almost 
continual reception being in
progress. of the many courts offered 
for the famous visitor's entertainment, 
few could be accepted, because 
of her short stay.

The Personal Side of Mary 
Church Terrell

When conversing with Mary 
Church Terrell one soon realizes that
although she is in public life she is
a real wife and mother. She refers
repeatedly to her home, her husband, 
Judge Terrell, and her two charming
daughters, one of whom graduated
from an academy at St. Johnsbury,
Vermont, this year and the other
from the Washington High School.
"I never tell a joke where the 
point is on my own people. I always 
find something where the laugh
is on the white man. The white people 
resent it, too, and often speak to 
me afterward when I have addressed
a white audience. I answer, 'Surely 
you are too broad-minded to take
that seriously as many jokes as you
tell about my people.'
"I never expect to get old. Our
women are the only women who do 
grow old. When the Woman's Congress 
met in Berlin, Susan B. Anthony 
was among the delegates. Every 
function I attended, no matter
how many times a day, Miss Anthony 
was there and she was then
past eighty years old and just as 
frisky and active as she could be. She
always addressed the delegates as
 'girls.' It was 'Come to order, 
'girls,' or 'now girls' or 'we girls.'
"It is rather a hard lot to be a 
representative woman. If you don't 
dress just so the conclusion is that
colored women don't dress enough
and are shabby and if you are quite
stylish - colored women overdress. if
 you don't wear a special thing for a 
special occasion - colored women 
don't know how to dress. You're
really a scapegoat for the whole race.
"Do you know that I long to get 
into the schools and colleges of the 
country and reach the young minds
of the other race. The young are so
anxious to do big things and I feel
that so much good could be accomplished 
if our position and our needs
were presented to them."
Mrs. Terrell was greatly impressed
with the beauty of Southern California 
and stated that she longed to remain.

MRS. TERRELL SPEAKS 
TO LARGE AUDIENCE

[*The Courier Times
Pawtucket, Rhode Island*] 
Colored Woman Tells War Will
[*Feb. 12, 1918*] 
Solve Race Problem. 

ATTLEBORO, Feb. 12.- Mrs. Mary 
Church Terrell was the speaker at last 
evening's meeting of the Attleboro Community 
Fellowship,  and she delighted an 
audience that taxed the capacity of the 
high school hall. Mrs. Terrell, who had 
made a life study of the race problem, 
chose for her subject, "How the War Will 
Solve the Race Problem." She stands 
firm in the belief that the day will come 
when all nationalities, colors, creeds, will
[s]tand as one massive brotherhood with
[t]he one great purpose of furthering humanity 
in every channel through the 
course of kindness and brotherly love.
Mrs. Terrell spoke pointedly and her remarks
caused no little discussion at the 
round table session that followed, but
one and all agreed that her logic was excellent, 
and she won many followers by
her appearance here last evening. 
A feature of the lecture was her defense
of the black race.  She touched on the
great things that members of her race
had done in all great struggles of the
past for the cause of independence, and
she freely prophesied that the colored
man would again show his metal in the
present world war.  Such could only result
one way, she said--that there would
be a bigger and stronger feeling between 
the black man and his white brother.  She
told of the negro of the South and the
effect that the poor white of that section 
had in keeping him down, saying that
the whites in the greater part of the
South are responsible for the lowness of
the colored people there. 
Mrs. Terrell said that the school authorities
preached to the colored race to 
keep their children in school, and she
asked what are the advantages in doing
so?  When the four years' high school
course is finished and the student graduated,
it is invariably impossible for the
colored student to secure a position of
trust and power, and the result is that 
four years have been wasted that might 
have been profitably spent otherwise. 
Miss Alice Wuille, a high school student, 
read Gov. McCall's Lincoln Day
proclamation, and the community sing
was held as usual under the direction of
Prof. J. Laing Gibb.  The community
chorus shows improvement with each 
meeting, and it is a treat to hear their
work. 
After the lecture by M[rs]. [Terr]ell the
usual round table s[e]ssion wa[s] in order, 
and the meeting closed be[f]ore, in observance
of the fuel l[a]ws. 


MAKES STRONG 
[*Portland Evening Express*] 
PLEA FOR NEGRO
[*and Advertiser, Dec. 11, 1916*] 

Mrs. Mary C. Terrell
Speaker at the
Open Forum. 

That a large part of the work done
by the abolitionists and the Northern
soldiers in freeing the Negro from
slavery had been undone was the startling
statement of Mrs. Mary C. Terrell 
an orator and champion of her
race in an intensely interesting and
and thought-provoking address at the
open civic forum at the First Universalist
Church last evening.  She presented
anything but encouraging pictures
of the social and industrial opportunities
of her race, throwing in 
 but little that presented the happier
side of the life and prospects of the Negro
race. She made a strong plea for
equality of all races and an equal opportunity
for every child born in this
Country, whether he has a dark skin
or a fair skin, presenting this as the
solution of the problem. 
Willis B. Hall, president of the Congress
Square Associates, under the
auspices of which the forum is held, 
presided and prayer was offered by
Rev. [?Ja]mes F. Albion, D. D., pastor of
the church. Karl Lester Tower, the forum
organist, played Andante in G
by Batiste as a prelude, Le Chant de
Bonheur by Lamare as an offertory,
and Callaerts' postlude in A minor as
a postlude.  Mr. Hamm announced as
the speaker next Sunday evening A. 
J. Philpot of Boston, a newspaperman,
whose subject will be Newspapers and
the Questions of the Day. 
After introducing her subject, Uncle
Sam and the Sons of Ham, stating
that she was to speak on "the real
Ham what am,"  Mrs. Terrell referred
to the 300 years of slavery of her race
and the 50 years which have followed 
their emancipation as a race, adding
that "as the story of slavery is one
of the saddest stories of history, so
the story  of the reclamation of the 
race is one of the happiest."  She referred
to the three steps of emancipation,
education and elevation of the
Negro race, and the sacrifice and suffering
of the people of the North.  She
asked if as a beneficiary the colored
race has failed to show its appreciation
and respond to the uplift given. 
The Negro as a student, in business
and finance, in patriotism, and in 
citizenship, was presented to the audience. 
Illiteracy, she stated, was reduced
to 31.4 per cent in the race,
honors at Harvard, Yale and other 
universities and colleges have been 
won again and again by the Negro
young men and young women;  Negroes
today own a billion dollars'
worth of property;  there are 40,000
teachers, 4,000 practicing medicine and
as many engaged in law.  One-half of
the cotton is cultivated by the Negro,
one-third of the tobacco, and a great
deal of the sugar and rice. 

"It would seem," added Mrs. Terrell,
"that the work of the colored people
was meeting the most exacting
demand of their friends. But this has
required great courage, but also a spirit
of hopefulness.  There has been
much that has been discouraging.  It
would seem literally as impossible for
a camel with a hump to get through 
the eye of a cambric needle as for a
colored man to get a position that is
not open to him.  And now many people 
who had before been loath are now
forced to admit the progress of the
race. 
"And yet, the interest which was
once manifested by the North is less
than it was and I sometimes hear it is
reaching the vanishing point.  The
public press is averse to publishing articles
presented for publication relative
to many phrases of the Negro race
question, and the American press is
determined that the American people
shall not know the truth about the colored
race." 
Mrs. Terrell compared the attitude
of the people now with that at the time
of the Civil War.  She spoke of the
Constitutional amendment which conferred 
upon the colored race the elective
franchise, adding that this privilege
is denied members of her race. 
"And yet, when a colored person speaks
of it as not being realized he is accused
of waving the bloody shirt or
raising the race problem.  I know there
are many wiser and greater people
than I who say it was a mistake to confer
suffrage franchise upon the colored 

race.  But it is in the Constitution and
should be enforced or repealed.  I have
not time to discuss it, but why should
Charles Sumner and other men of earlier
days have stood for it if it was
wrong?  You know  there are thousands
of colored men who would take
their lives in their hands if they attempted
to vote, yet many others who
are vicious and  otherwise unfit are 
given the right.  It doesn't take any
great profundity or perspicacity to see
that the abrogation of one law leads to
the annuling of other laws." 
Reference was made by Mrs. Terrell
to the lynchings of Negroes, adding, 
"We are hanged and burned to the
stake and flayed every day, and the
murderers are allowed to go unpunished." 
Speaking of the offenses charged
to the Negro, Mrs. Terrell asked her
hearers to remember that it was always
a "big, black, burly brute" that 
is described in the newspapers.  She
told of instances where white men 
had blacked up with lamp black and
gone forth to assault and to steal, 
evading detection and throwing suspicion
upon the Negro race by their
blacking their faces. 
Mrs. Terrell spoke interestingly and
yet with a touch of pathos of the ef[fect] 
of colored parents to bring up
[th]eir children with the ideals which
they wish them to have.  She referred
to the conditions under which colored
people are forced to live in most of
the American cities, and of their need
of help in overcoming influences
which would drag them down. 
The speaker referred to the "thorny
path of limitation and proscription"
ahead of the colored youth, adding
that many colored mothers look forward
with fear for their boys. 
In closing Mrs. Terrell said: 

"We are preaching the dignity of
labor, that the occupation does not 
make the man, but the man the occupation.
We are teaching the people
of our downtrodden race to be industrious,
to judge their neighbors by
intrinsic merit rather than by the advantageous
position of race.  In the
name of American childhood, black as
well as white, we, the colored mothers,
beseech you to help give these opportunity 
that equality and justice to all
may be realized." 
The opportunity for questions was
seized by many present and Mrs. Terrell 
proved herself ready with an answer 
which was illuminating and interesting. 
One of the men in the audience 
cited a similar experience to the
one given by the lecturer of the young
colored girl who was discharged from 
the department store, the incident
given by the man occurring in Portland,
he stated.  Mrs. Terrell spoke of
race prejudice as the cause of this
trouble, and the recognition of the
right of every one to earn his daily
bread.  She created a laugh when 
she said in reply to a question,
that "the only trouble with the Anglo-Saxon
is that he is the only pebble on
the beach."  Questions asked related
to the convict lease system in vogue 
in Southern states, and other race
problems and conditions.  Mrs. Terrell
was frequently applauded.

80,000 Paid Circulation     FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1926.  [*Des Moines Evening Tribune*]
LAUDS NEGRO WOMEN
FOR STEADY PROGRESS
"Colored women are handicapped 
by their race as well as 
by their sex." Mrs. Mary Church 
Terrell, noted Negro woman 
scholar and lecturer, told a large 

group of men and women who 
gathered at the St. Paul's A. M. 
E. church last night. 
"The strenuous efforts exerted 
by the white suffragets to overcome 
the drawback of sex are 
small in comparison with the 
struggle of Negro women, who are 
hampered by race prejudice as 
well." she declared. 

Mrs. Terrell praised the educational 
progress of the Negro women, 
saying that they have received 
Phi Beta Kappa keys from all the 
leading women's colleges and universities 
in the country. 
"White women, nowadays, can 
engage in almost any industry or 
profession," the speaker said, 
"but the colored women have not 

yet been emancipated to that extent." 
Mrs. Terrell concluded with an 
expression of confidence in the future 
progress of the Negro race.



The most thrilling and interesting
meeting of the season was held at the
National Theatre on Thursday evening,
October 14.  It had all the ear-marks
of good old-time, snappy campaign stuff, 
with banners waving, flags flying, music,
cheering, party yells, street parade and
all.  Enthusiasm was at fever heat, and
the men had to admit that for real
pep and snap the women had beat them
two to one. 
The meeting was preceded by a street
parade of the women from all the wards, 
led by their ward chairmen and district
leaders.  Over five hundred women
were in line, headed by the Odd Fellows
band, each woman dressed in white, carrying
a flag, and stepping in proud time
to the music.  The conduct of the parade
was due to the ingenuity of Mrs. Carrie
M. S. Pipes and Mrs. M. E. Jackson.
After the women had filed into the
National Theatre, taken their seats and
filled the center space, which had been 
reserved for them, the band played the
"Star Spangled Banner," and Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell, the speaker of the evening,
escorted by Charles H. Colburn.
Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Mrs. 
Cecelia Dorrell, marched up the aisle, 

while the audience stood and waved 
flags in time to the music. 
The meeting was presided over by
Mrs. Dunbar-Nelson, who introduced
Mrs. Mary H. Woodlen, to lead the assemblage
in prayer.  After the singing
of America, Jefferson Coage addressed 
the women and men on the necessities
of straight, clear voting.  Charles H. 
Colburn made a few telling and interesting
remarks.  Mrs. Carrie M. S. Pipes
delivered the slogan of the women, 
"Vote the Straight Republican ticket!" 
and read some witty verses on the campaign. 
The chairman then led the 
women in their party yell, "Vote the
Straight Republican ticket!" followed 
by cheers.  After the band had played, 
Mrs. Terrell was introduced by the 
chairman, who said that Mrs. Terrell 
had traveled all over Europe three times,
had been through every state in the
south time and again, but had never
been arrested until she came to Delaware. 
This in reference to Mrs. Terrell's
unfortunate experience in Dover
on the preceding evening. 
Mrs. Terrell held her audience as by
a magnetic spell for an hour.  Though 
(Continue on Page Nine.) 

Mrs. Mary Church Addresses
Great Audience; Most Successful
Rally of Campaign 
[*Wilmington Advocate  Oct 23, 1920*] 

(Continued from Page 1)
the evening was warm, and one-third
of the audience was compelled to stand, 
so great was the crowd, not a sound
save enthusiastic applause was heard
from the beginning of Mrs. Terrell's remarks
to the end.  She charmed, delighted,
wooed, captivated, aroused, and 
enthralled men and women.  She played
upon their emotions, and swayed them
to her will. 
Her discourse held strictly to the
Democratic party.  She reviewed its
past record of ineptitude and prejudice, 
of hatred toward the Negro and bitterness
toward all subject peoples.  She
showed its present practices as opposed 
to its theories, and appealed to the men 
and women voters to arise in their
might and smite it at the polls on election
day and drive such a party into
the oblivion which it so richly deserves. 

Mrs. Terrell might well have spoken
another hour and have held her audience
longer.  Even at the close of the
meeting, they were loath to leave, lingering
in the hope of hearing more from 
her lips. 
Mrs. Nelson introduced Mrs. Lewis
Redding, who read resolutions, condemning
the conduct of the railroad official
at Dover, who had exceeded his authority
in arresting Mrs. Terrell because she
asked his aid in finding a number in
the telephone book.  The resolutions
were unanimously adopted by the assemblage. 
Dr. Henri Pipes was introduced and
made a graceful little acknowledgment
of the applause showered upon him. 
After the meeting, an impromptu reception
was held by Mrs. Terrell on the
stage of the theatre. 


The Women to Honor Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell.
The women of Washington, grateful
to Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, the peerless
queen of the platform, for her
valiant and effective services in behalf
of humanity, her race and sex,
are planning to give a grand reception
in her honor on Wednesday evening,
April 10, at Lincoln Temple,
Congregational Church.  Some of
those actively identified with the
movement are Miss Rachel D. Bell,
Miss Eva A. Chase, Mrs. B. K. Bruce,
Mrs. E. C. Williams, Rev. A. C. Garner,
Prof. A. O. Stafford  Prof Kelly
Miller and others.  It is expected
that addresses will be delivered by
Capt. James F. Oyster, president of
the Board of Education upon which 
Mrs. Terrell served with distinction
for a number of years;  Prof. R. C. 
Bruce, assistant superintendent of the
public schools;  and Dr. W. P. Thirkield, 
president of Howard University.
As a lasting souvenir of their admiration,
the women are to present Mrs. 
Terrell with a beautiful piece of statuary. 

[*1939*]
Sojourner Truth
Reception Fetes
Mrs. Terrell 
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, president
Emeritus of the National 
Association of Colored Women,
vacationing in Los Angeles, was
guest of honor Sunday at a reception
at the Sojourner Truth
home, given by the California Association
of Colored Women. 
In the receiving line with Mrs. 
Terrell were women active in the
club life of the state:  Mesdames
Ardelia Anglin, vice president of
the association;  Eliza Warner, 
State president Emeritus;  Minnie
Bates, past state president;  Corrine
B. Hicks of Pasadena, Mable
M. Gray and E. A. Johnson.
Hostesses were Mesdames Gertrude
Hicks, Billie McFarland,
J. H. Holden, C. A. Robinson,
Gertrude Settle, Ernestine Royal,
Geneva Wade, Thelma Long, Emile
Arnaud and Rose Pembrook. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Ford was the
mistress of ceremonies.  Among
those participating on the program,
which was highlighted by
Mrs. Terrell's address, were Carrie
A. Daniels, vocalist;  Miss
Page, accompanied by her father,
Prof. Eugene Page;  Baron Lawson,
bringing greetings from the
Community Builders;  Mrs. Faustina
Johnson ,greetings from the
Women's Breakfast club. 

Mrs. Terrell Lectures in Boston. 
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, formerly a
member of the board of education of the 
District of Columbia, delivered an address 
before the students of Radcliffe College
Cambridge, Mass., this afternoon.  Tomorrow
she will speak to the girls of the 
Boston Latin School. 

TRIBUTE TO MRS. TERRELL

Expression of Appreciation of
Her Services on Board of 
Education. 

A meeting was held in Lincoln Memorial
Congregational Church last night in compliment
to Mrs. Mary Church Terrell for
her long and faithful services as a member
of the board of education of this city. 
Speeches of appreciation were made by
Rev. A. C. Garner of the Plymouth Congregational
Church, Assistant Superintendent
Roscoe C. Bruce, ex-District Commissioner
H. B. F. Macfarland, Capt.
James F. Oyster, president of the board
of education;   Rev. Dr. W. P. Thirkield,
president of Howard University;  Rev.
Sylvester L. Corrothers, pastor of the
Galbraith Chapel, and Judge William H.
De Lacy of the Juvenile Court.  W. V. 
Cox, president of the Second National 
Bank, and Dr. A. Russell, president of the
Original Citizens' Associations of Patrons
of Schools, both of whom had accepted 
invitations to deliver addresses, were navoidably 
prevented from attending the
meeting, but sent letters commending the
work done in the educational field by Mrs. 
Terrell. 

Program of Exercises.
Mrs. Lelia Pendleton presided at the
meeting and Rev. Sterling N. Brown, pastor
of the Lincoln Church, delivered the
invocation and Rev. William M. Clair of
Asbury M. E. Church pronounced the
benediction.  There were instrumental
solos by Miss Mary Europe and Miss
Phyllis Terrell, daughter of Mrs. Terrell,
and a vocal solo by Miss Lottie Wallace.
There were two presentation addresses,
one by Mrs. A. M. Curtis, who formally
tendered an offering of flowers, which
consisted of American beauty roses, sent
by President Taft, and a children's testimonial,
comprising a large floral design.
The other address was by Frank R. Cardoza,
principal of the Henry Wilson
School, who on behalf of citizens of the
District presented a bronze statue of the
Venus de Milo on a pedestal. 

General Reception. 
A general reception was held at the
close of the exercises.  The ushers were
pupils of Normal School No. 2. 
The committee in charge of the testimonial
consisted of Rev. A. C. Garner, 
chairman;  Miss R. E. Bell, secretary; 
Mrs. Fannie M. Clair, treasurer;  Mrs. 
Lula A. Pendleton, Dr. Robert W.
Brown, Mrs. J. M. Layton, Mr. J. W.
Cromwell and Mrs. L. M. Hershaw. 
Mrs. Terrell not only served on the 
board of education as it is at present
organized for a period of five years, 
but also was a member of the board of
trustees of public schools for six years 
under the old system, having been one
of the first women appointed when the
act of Congress bestowed this privilege
on the women of the District.

Mrs. Mary Terrell Addresses
Great Audience; Most Successful 
Rally of Campaign
[*Del,  Wilmington Del. Advocate Oct. 23rd. 1920]
Women of the City Demonstrate Their Power.
Picturesque Street Parade Before Before Meeting
The most thrilling and interesting
meeting of the season was held at the 
National Theatre on Thursday evening, 
October 14. It had all the ear-marks
of good old-time, snappy campaign stuff, 
with banners waving, flags flying, music, 
cheering, party yells, street parade and
all. Enthusiasm was at fever heat, and 
the men had to admit that for real
pep and snap the women had beat them
two to one.
The meeting was preceded by a street
parade of the women from all the wards, 
led my their ward chairman and district
leaders. Over five hundred women
were in line, headed by the Odd Fellows
band, each woman dressed in white, carrying
a flag, and stepping proud in time
to the music. The conduct of the parade
was due to the ingenuity of Mrs. Carrie
M. S. Pipes and Mrs. M. E. Jackson.
After the women had filed into the 
National Theatre, taken their seats and
filled the center space, which had been
reserved for them, the band played the
"Star Spangled Banner," and Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell, the speaker of the evening, 
escorted by Charles H. Colburn, 
Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Mrs. 
Cecilia Dorrell, marched up the aisle, 
while the audience stood and waved
flags in time to the music.
The meeting was presided over by
Mrs. Dunbar-Nelson, who introduced
Mrs. Mary H. Woodlen, to lead the assemblage
in prayer. After the singing
of America, Jefferson Coage addressed
the women and men on the necessities
of straight, clear voting.  Charles H. 
Colburn made a few telling and interesting
remarks. Mrs. Carrie M. S. Pipes
delivered the slogan of the women, 
"Vote the Straight Republican ticket!"
and read some witty verses on the campaign.
The chairman then led the
women in their party yell, "Vote the
Straight Republican ticket!" followed
by cheers. After the band had played, 
Mrs. Terrell was introduced by the
chairman, who said that Mrs. Terrell
had traveled all over Europe three times, 
had been through every state in the 
south time and again, but had never
been arrested until she came to Delaware.
This in reference to Mrs. Terrell's
unfortunate experience in Dover
on the preceding evening.
Mrs. Terrell held her audience by 
a magnetic spell for an hour. Though
(Continued on Page Nine.)
Mrs. Mary Church Addresses
Great Audience; Most Successful 
Rally of Campaign
(Continued from Page 1)
the evening was warm, and one-third
of the audience was compelled to stand, 
so great was the crowd, not a sound,
save enthusiastic applause was heard
from the beginning of Mrs. Terrell's remarks
to the end. She charmed, delighted,
wooed, captivated, aroused, and
enthralled men and women. She played
upon their emotions, and swayed them
to her will.
Her discourse held strictly to the 
Democratic party. She reviewed its
past record of ineptitude and prejudice, 
of hatred toward the Negro and bitterness
toward all subject peoples. She
showed its present practices as opposed
to its theories, and appealed to the men
and women voters to arise in their
might and smite it at the polls on election
day and drive such a party into
the oblivion which it so richly deserves.
Mrs. Terrell might well have spoken
another hour and have held her audience
longer. Even at the close of the
meeting, they were loath to leave, lingering
in the hope of hearing more from 
her lips.
Mrs. Nelson introduced Mrs. Lewis
Redding, who read resolutions, condemning
the conduct of the railroad official
at Dover, who had exceeded his authority
in arresting Mrs. Terrell because she
asked his aid in finding a number in
the telephone book. The resolutions
were unanimously adopted by the assemblage.
Dr. Henri Pipes was introduced and
made a graceful little acknowledgement
of the applause showered upon him.
After the meeting, an impromptu reception
was held by Mrs. Terrell on the
stage of the theatre.

NEGRO WOMAN SPEAKER
DEFENDS RACE BEFORE THE
CONGRESS SQ. ASSOCIATES
[*Argus  Dec. 11, 1916]
Denouncing the present generation as
having less of the good feeling toward
the negro, than that which characterized
the 18th century, especially in the
North, Mary Church Terrell, a colored
orator appeared as the champion o[f]
the progressive Negroes in America, a[t]
the open Forum of the Congress Squar[e]
Associates, held last night.
The speaker asked her audienc[e]
whether the average American negro
passed the muster of entrance into society, 
and in the same voice she answered
the question by cutting the
number of the enviable positions that have
been earned by colored men in this
country. She declared that a number
of the converted honorary degrees at
Yale and Harvard have been carried
away, year after year by colored students.
She also gave the municipal officers
of cities, in general, a scathing denunciation
for the lack of interest shown 
in the education and rearing of the
colored children in their various cities.
The many lynchings that have occured
in this country, where the victims have
been negroes, was also given a severe
reprimand by the speaker, who declared
that less than 10 per cent of
the white murderers are ever caught
and punished for their crimes.
She related an incident, showing the
means that the white race has attempted
to commit crime, with the
idea of laying the responsibility at the 
door of the negro. She cited an incident
in Alexandria, Va., where a bank
robber who was caught in the act
of stealing a quantity of money, was
found to have blackened his face, in 
the hope of laying the blame on some
negro, providing he was seen but not
caught.
She said that the environment, in
which she average negro family was
forced to live, was a leading factor
in the immorality that existed among
the negroes. She went on further to
state that they were usually placed
in one end of the town where the title
of "red light" light district had already
been affixed.
In closing she said that it was a
disgrace to recount some of the petty
charges that had been brought against 
negro men, to relieve them of their
positions when it was discovered that
they were negroes.

MRS. TERRELL DOES NOT SEEK OFFICE
[*Buffalo Enquirer
Thurs. July 11-1901*]
DISTURBED AT SUGGESTION THAT SHE WANTS TO CONTINUE
AS PRESIDENT OF COLORED WOMEN.

Tears filled the eyes of Mrs. Mary
Church Terrill, president of the National
Association of Colored Women,
when she addressed the convention in
the Women's Union Building this morning.
A lively executive session had just
been held, and it was some time after
10 o'clock when the convention had 
been called to order.
"It has been publicly stated," said 
Mrs. Terrill, "that after positively announcing 
that I would not again be a 
candidate for president of the association
that I had changed my mind and 
was again seeking the office. This is 
false, and I can't understand who is
responsible for the circulation of such
a story."
Here Mrs. Terrill was almost overcome.
Half a dozen of the delegates
were on the floor at once. All declared
that Mrs. Terrill was the ideal president.
Many declared that they favored 
amending the constitution so as to
permit Mrs. Terrill to serve again.
Delegate after delegate arose and
spoke in the highest terms of the popular
president.
These kindly expressions seemed to
soothe Mrs. Terrill somewhat, and she
quickly recovered her composure.
When she put a motion again a gray-haired, 
motherly-looking colored dame
arose and said:
"I just want to remark that I am
glad to see that our president, like
Richard, is herself again."
At the morning's session papers were
read by Mrs. S. Graves of Chicago,
Miss Edna A. Anderson of the Friday
Study Club of Cleveland, Mrs. J. L. 
Bowden of the Old Folks' Home Association
of Cleveland, Miss Ruth Page 
of the Amity Social and Literary Club
of Buffalo and Mrs. George Barrier of 
the Willing Workers of Detroit.
During yesterday's session of the 
National Association of Colored Women
in the rooms of the Women's Union,
Mrs. Mary Church Terrill, the president
of the association, was the hostess 
of Dr. Sarah Morris of Buffalo, who 
was given a place of honor on the platform.


after the bridal journey at No. 316
Plymouth avenue.
[*Buffalo Eve News July 11*]
Among the delegates to the Colored 
Women's convention of special prominece 
is Mrs. Frederick Douglass, and, 
curiously enough, on the stage yesterday
was an oil portrait of the first Mrs.
Douglass, painted by Mrs. Jackson of 
Bay City. Mrs. Booker T. Washington
is, of course, the cynosure of all
eyes wherever she goes. Mrs. Jerome
Jeffries of Rochester is well-known not
only by her colored confreres, but by
club women generally in New York
State. Mrs. Josephine Bruce is not only
a prominent women at the Congress,
but her name is being used as a possible
candidate for the presidency, the 
brilliant woman who now holds that office,
Mrs. Mary C. Terrill, unequivocally
stating her determination not to permit
her name to go before the convention.
[*1901*]
Mrs. Libbie C. Anthony of Jefferson
City, Mo., presented one of the best
pleas for giving yesterday morning that
could possibly be made, condensing in
convincing manner the Bible commands
and admonitions relating to giving. Mrs.
Lucy Thurman acted at once on the advice
given with its wonderful energy in 
testing its effects on the spirits of those
present. Mrs. Thurman is a power at
the convention.
Mrs. Rosetta E. Lawson of Washington,
 D. C., is another woman of interesting 
personality and has come before
the convention rather prominently as
lacking perfect harmony with the presiding
officer. Mrs. Lawson is president 
of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Club of
Washington and is the national superintendent
of temperance in the W. C. T. U. 
White and thin summer dresses are
largely worn by the delegates, but the 
ear, too, is afflicted with the fashionable
swish and rustle of taffeta petticoats
as some of the more elaborately
dressed women move about.
At yesterday's meeting several prominent
Buffalo women were seen, many 
of them showing their interest in the 
proceedings by applauding enthusiastically.


COLORED WOMEN
[*Buffalo Commercial*]
Speeches by Distinguished Delegates
to the National Convention
—Ohio Federation Formed.
[*July 11-1901*]
Last evening's session of the National Association 
of Colored Women was taken
up by speeches by well-known colored women
who are attending the convention.
Nearly all of the speakers were graduates 
of Oberlin College. The speakers included
Mrs. Terrill, president of the association;
Mrs. William H Talbert, president of the
Buffalo Phyllis Wheatley Club; Mrs. Josephine
Bruce of Tuskekee, Ala., and Mrs. Anna
Sprague.
In the afternoon, the delegates from Ohio
met and organized a state federation of colored
women with the following officers:
President, Mrs, Carrie WIlliams Clifford,
Cleveland, O.; first vice-president, Mrs. J.
L. Bolden, Cleveland; second vice-president,
Mrs. A. Sellers, Cleveland; third vice-
president, Mrs. Fannie Benson, Cleveland;
recording secretary, Mrs. Ashby, Toledo;
corresponding secretary, Miss Emma A.
Tolbert, Cleveland; chaplain, Mrs. J. M.
Jackson, Cleveland; chairman of executive
committee, Miss Dora Johnson of Norwalk.

[*Buffalo Evening Times
Sat. July 13 - 1901*]

Mrs. Yates 
Is President

Popular Treasurer of Association 
   of Colored Women Receives 
                High Office

The third convention of the National
Association of Colored Women adjourned
last evening after a four days' 
session. The last day marked the election
of officers. They are Mrs. Josephine
Silone Yates of Kansas City, Mo.,
president; first vice-president, Mrs. B.
T. Washington; second vice-president, 
Mrs. Agnes Moody; corresponding secretary,
Miss Smallwood; recording secretary,
Miss Elizabeth Carter; second 
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Susan H. 
Evans; third corresponding secretary,
Miss Josie Holmes; treasurer, Mrs.
Libie Anthony; chairman of the executive
committee, Mrs. Josephine Bruce;
national organizer, Miss Kittie Mason.
The election was a most exciting one,
yet was conducted with an admirable
fairness to every candidate and according
to parliamentary rules. There were 
two other candidates for president besides
Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Booker T. Washington
and Mrs. Josephine Bruce, and
it showed the great popularity of the
successful one when she could defeat
two such favorites as Mrs. Washington
and Mrs. Bruce. The ballot cast showed
that Mrs. Yates received 66 votes, Mrs. 
Washington 25 and Mrs. Bruce 22. Two-
thirds of the vote was necessary for a 
choice, when Mrs. Washington and Mrs.
Yates was elected unanimously. Immediately
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell was
nominated and elected by a standing 
vote as honorary president of the association.
Though each candidate for every office
was heartily supported by her
party, the entire election was remarkable 
for the courtesy shown by all and 
the good-natured applause when the
fight was over. Too much praise cannot
be given to Mrs. Terrell for her impartial
rulings, unflagging kindness,
and tact under every circumstance.
Buffalo women who attended the convention's
different sessions will always
remember her as an ideal presiding officer
and a charming woman socially.
That the association highly esteem
their retiring president was shown last
evening when they presented to her a 
solid silver loving cup, handsomely
mounted.
At the closing session last evening
the following strong resolution condemning
lynching was passed:
Lynching is a mode of punishment
at once barbarous and crime-producing
instead of crime-decreasing. It
blackens the fair name of any State
in which it operates. It makes orphans 
of innocent children and places
them under a ban of disgrace. It institutes
lawlessness and ignores the 
courts of justice. It brings the name
of America into disrepute before the world
and reveals the fact of its inability to
protect those who by birth and situation
owe it allegiance. It is further a
sad reflection upon the Christian civilization 
of a republic which acknowledges 
no superior among the governments
of the world.
Whereas, This barbarous method of
punishment is operating, not only in
the Southern section of our country,
but its baneful influence is reaching to
every section; and
Whereas. The negro womanhood
and childhood of the nation suffer
from its operation to an alarming and 
painful degree; be it
Resolved, That this National Association
of Colored Women condemn it 
with all the strength of our womanhood
and pledge to raise our protest 
against it under all circumstances.

[*Providence Sunday Aug. 13, 1899]
        WOMEN'S CLUBS. 

National Association of Colored Women
           to Assemble in Chicago.

HOME ORGANIZATION AND HOUSEHOLD
                      ECONOMICS

Mrs. Terrell's Outline of Work in
    Alabama — Topics to be Discussed 
    in  Chicago. — Kindergartens and
    Racial Literature.
Truly this is a day of organization.
Not yet have the papers
concluded comment upon the
late International Council; already are
women all over the land talking and
planning for the next biennial of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs,
and just before us is the meeting of
another national organization.
   To-morrow begins, in Chicago, a three
days Convention of the National Association
of Colored Women.
   The President, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell
says of this organization: "there
are many things to discourage us, to
be sure, but we have some blessings for
which to be thankful.  Not the least of
these is the rapid advancement made
by our women in everything that makes
for the culture of the individual and the
elevation of the race.  For years either
banding themselves into small companies
or struggling alone, colored women
have worked with might and main to
improve the condition of their people.
The necessity of systematizing their efforts
and working on a larger scale became
apparent not many years ago and
they decided to unite their forces.  Thus
it happened that in the summer of 1896
the National Association of Colored
Women was formed by the union of
two large organizations, both of which
had done much to show our women the
advantage gained by concerted action."
   The influence of the trend of women's
clubs along the lines of home organization
and household economics is plainly
seen, as she continues: "Believing that
it is only through the home that a people
may become really good and truly
great, the National Association of Colored
Women has entered that sacred
domain.  Throughout the 26 States in
which the association is represented, 
mothers' meetings have been a special
feature of the work.  There has been a 
determined effort to have heart to heart
talks with our women, that we may
strike at the root of evils, many of
which lie at the fireside.  If the women
of the dominant race with all the centuries
of education, culture and refinement
back of them, with all their
wealth of opportunity ever present with
them, if these women feel the need of
a mothers' congress that they may be
enlightened as to the best methods of
rearing children and conducting their
homes, how much more do our women,
from whom shackles have but yesterday
fallen, need information on the
same subjects!  And so the association
is working vigorously and continuously
to establish mothers' congresses wherever
our women may be found."
   In a brief, concise statement, Mrs.
Terrell outlines the work of the Tuskegee,
Ala., branch, which as she expresses
it, "is bringing the light of
knowledge and the gospel of cleanliness
to their benighted plantation sisters,"
continuing: "In some of the clubs
household affairs are discussed and instruction
as to the best way to sweep,
dust, cook, wash and iron is given.
Against the one-room cabin, so common
in the rural settlements of some
sections, we have made a vigorous crusade.
When families of eight or ten 
men, women and children are all huddled
together in a single apartment,
there is little hope of inculcating morality
or modesty.    ✷ ✷ ✷

MARY CHURCH TERRELL,
President of National Association of Colored Women.
"The Washington League has in operation
a training class for kindergartens,
sewing classes for children, a
mending bureau and a day nursery.
Much the same kind of work is done
by the Kansas city League, Missouri;
the Woman's Era Club of Boston; the
Woman's Loyal Union of New York, and
other organizations.
   "The Phyllis Wheatley Club of New
Orleans has in two short years succeeded
in establishing a sanitarium and a
training school for nurses. ✷ ✷ ✷ Of
the nurses who have registered some
have already passed an examination before
the State Medical Board of Louisiana
and are now practicing their profession.
During the New Orleans yellow
fever epidemic of 1897 the Phyllis
Wheatley nurses were in constant demand.
The best proof of the success
of the sanitarium is that the city of
New Orleans has recently promised at
an annual appropriation of $200, which
its founders hope will soon be increased.
   "By some of the association organizations
charitable institutions have been
established and are either supported entirely
or partially by the members."
   The Old Folks' Home of Memphis,
Tenn., and the school established in the
"black belt" of Alabama were instanced.
Of Chicago clubs she says:
"They are all active, earnest and progressive.
One of them puts forth all
of its efforts in the rescue of fallen
women and tempted girls," concluding
with "but with all the efforts put forth
to uplift our race we feel that the
one thing needful to accomplish most
rapidly and effectively the purpose for
which we organized has not yet been
done.  As an organization of women
nothing lies nearer our hearts than the
children.  It is the kindergarten we
need.  Free kindergartens in every city
and hamlet in this broad land we must
have if the children are to receive from
us what it is our duty to give.  Already
kindergartens have been established and
successfully maintained by several organizations
from which most encouraging
reports have come.  May their
worthy example be emulated till in no
branch of the association shall the chil-
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dren of the poor, at least, be deprived
of the blessings which flow from the
kindergarten alone.  The more unfavorable
the environment of children the
more necessary is it that steps be taken
to counteract baleful influences on innocent
victims.  How imperative is it,
then, that as colored women we inculcate
correct principles and set good examples
for our own youth whose little
feet will have so many thorny paths
of prejudice, temptation and injustice
to tread.
 "In imitation of the example set by
the great teacher of men, who could
not offer Himself as a sacrifice until
He had made an eternal plea for the innocence
and helplessness of childhood,
colored women should everywhere reach
out after the waifs and strays who
without their aid may be doomed to
lives of evil and shame.
 "And so, lifting as we climb, onward
and upward we go, struggling and striving
and hoping that the buds and blossoms
of our desires will burst into glorious
fruition ere long.  With courage,
born of success achieved in the past,
with a keen sense of responsibility
which we shall continue to assume, we
look forward to a future large with
promise and hope."
 Mrs. Terrell, after her graduation
from Oberlin College, spent two years
abroad in study and travel.  She was
several years a member of the School
Board of Washington, and on June 29,
1899, she was elected a member of the
Board of Trustees for hartshorn Memorial
College of Richmond, Va., the first
colored woman to be so honored.
   Although the programme of the meeting
at Chicago is not yet printed, a few
of the topics for discussion are before
us.  Among them are: "The Best Methods
of Establishing Schools of Domestic
Science," "Why the National Association
of Colored Women Should Devise
Means of Establishing Kindergartens,"
The Future Club Work of Our
Women," "Racial Literature" and
"Practical Club Work."


The addresses of welcome will be delivered 
by Mrs. L. A. Davis, Mayor Harrison
and Mrs. Ellen Henrotin of Chicago.
Mrs. Booker T. Washington,
the Chairman of the executive committee,
will respond for the association,
which, including as it does the leading
women of the race, bids fair to make
practical the adopted motto, "Lifting
as We Climb."
Alice Stone Blackwell says in the 

Woman's Journal:  Since the investigation
of the Department of Labor was 
made, clubs once purely literary in scope 
have branched into the study of educational
and civic conditions.  Other clubs,
formed for social purposes only, have
been led into public work of many kinds,
and now boldly advocate industrial reforms. 
In fact, there seems to have
followed a general awakening to the
duty and possibilities of women's clubs
all along the wake of this inquiry of the 
Department of Labor.  It acted on these
institutions a good deal as it does  on an
individual to pull him up with a round
turn and make him give an account of
himself--and whether or not he is doing
the best he can.  It sets him to thinking,
and if he is the right sort, to some
purpose.  And this departmental inquiry
set the women's clubs to thinking. 
The women of Maine and New Hampshire
in session on Friday at the Maine
Chautauqua at Fryeburg, considered a
variety of topics.  Mrs. Mary Hill of the
Fryeburg Club spoke of the "Relations
of Club Life to the Home: and Mrs.
Ellen M. Mason of North Conway, N. H., 
took for her topic "The Home Maker 
Who Belongs to a Woman's Club."
"Essentials and Non-Essentials of
Housekeeping" was also assigned to a 
clubwoman from the Granite State, Mrs. 
Mary Woodworth of Concord.  "THe
Village Beautiful" was left in the care
of Mrs. Mary Loomis Todd of Amherst,
Mass., than whom few are better fitted 
to do justice to the subject.  "The Bible 
in the Home" was the subject taken by 
Miss Helen M. Cole, whose interprettations
and readings of the Bible have woon
favorable comment in different parts of
the country.  Another event of the week 
has been the meetings in Norwich, of
the Northeastern Federation of Women's
Clubs, already noticed in the locals. 
Many of our clubwomen will be interested
in a late letter received from Mr.
Hyatt, the Alcaide of Guanabacoa.  It
tells of the arrival of the boxes of clothing
sent by the Embreaso club and
other Providence friends, adding:  "The
children were very much in want of
clothes."  He refers to the many calls
for medicine and food, which the money
sent helped him to meet, adding:  "I wish
to express most heartfelt thanks to the
Embreaso Club, the Woman's Home
Mission Circle, the Young Girls' Club,
the Short Story Club and others, whose
names are not given.  The asylum, with 
your valuable aid, and assistance from
the United States Government, is now
complete, but we must depend for maintenance
on public charity, and I hope
you will not forget Guanabacoa's little
ones." 
EMMA SHAW COLCLEUGH. 



DOING A GREAT WORK

Practical Methods Adopted by the 
National Association of 
Colored Women.
Elevating the Race.
[*Buffalo Commercial 
July 10, 1901*]

Interesting Reports Presented at the 
Second Day's Session--Many 
Delegates in Attendance.

The National Association of Colored 
Women, which is holding a four days' 
convention in this city, is one of the most 
efficient and practical organizations of 
its kind in the country. The aim of the 
association is to elevate the race which 
its members represent, and the methods 
which it has adopted are simple, direct 
and successful. It does not idle away its 
time in fruitless theorizing and preaching,
but through the numerous local clubs
which are affiliated with it, it comes into
direct personal contact with the home
life of the negro all over this great
land. The association strives to educate
the negro mothers relative to their
duty to their children; it encourages and
assists in the establishment and operation
of kindergarten schools, and in every
practical way aims to improve the home
atmosphere and the moral and intellectual
tone of the race. The leading spirits 
in the association include practically all
of the prominent colored women educators,
philanthropists and lecturers in the country.

The association began its session this
morning shortly after 10 o'clock with
about 100 delegates in attendance. The
hall in the Women's Educational and
Industrial Union building where the
convention is being held was prettily
decorated. Flags were draped from 
the balcony and the platform was embellished
with palms, flowers and the
Stars and Stripes.

Reports of various clubs, affiliated with
the association, were presented this
morning. One of the most interesting
reports presented was that of the Harriet
Beecher Stowe Club of Washington, D.C.,
the home of Mrs. Terrell, the president
of the national association. This
club is composed exclusively of teachers 
and former teachers in the schools of
Washington and vicinity.

Mrs. J. E. Holmes, the state organizer
of Georgia, presented a report from the
Women's Club of Marietta, Ga. Among
other things the club reported that it had
purchased a number of sheets and pillow
cases which it loaned out to sick people,
such a step having been found necessary
owing to the destitution prevailing among
colored people.

Mrs. Georgia De Baptiste Faulkner
of Chicago reported on the work of the
clubs in that city. Other reports were
made by Mrs. Emma A. Talbot of the
Minerva Reading Club of Cleveland, O.,
and Mrs. E. A. Durgan of the Tuskegee
Women's Club of Tuskegee, Ala.

Mrs. Durgan said there had been considerable
improvement during the last 
few years in the condition of the people
included in the territory covered by the
club. For instance, last year many colored
families reported that they were
raising their own vegetables and chickens
which had not been the case in previous
years. 

Reports also were made by Miss Nellie
A. Baker of the King's Daughters' Circle
of Cleveland, O., Mrs. Mary Sellers of
Cleveland, Mrs. Cora Page of the Women's
Aid Club of Peoria, Ill., Mrs. 
Mamie B. Walker of the Missionary
Club of Chicago, Miss Dora Johnson of
the Dunbar Club of Norwalk, O.

Mrs. Anthony of Jefferson City, Mo.,
chairman of the ways and means committee,
read a paper on "Systematic Giving."

Mrs. Booker T. Washington, hairman
of the executive committee, submitted
her report.

Mrs. Elizabeth R. Sterrette, chief of 
the negro women's department of the
Charleston Exposition, addressed the association
briefly. She urged the association
to assist in the work of collecting at
the Charleston Exposition exhibits showing
the progress made by the colored race
in America. The morning session was
then adjourned. 



[*Buffalo Enquirer--
July 10--1901*]

Mrs. Mary Church Terrill, president
of the association, in her biennial address
talked well and strongly yesterday
when she said:

"The denser the ignorance, and 
the greater the degradation of the
masses of a people, the harder should
the more favored portions strive to illumine
the minds and improve the 
morals of those whom it is in their 
power to uplift.

"As long as hundreds of negro
children are born in the convict camps
of the South, breathe the polluted atmosphere
of disease and crime from
the time they utter their first cry into
the world, until they are released from 
its horrors by death, idleness on our
part is sin.

"Silence is sometimes golden, but
the silence which seals the lips of
negro women, so that they fail to expose
the snares set and the temptations 
laid for our own girls is the basest
kind of dross.

"As long as lack of employment
forces our youth to idleness or crime,
it is the duty of the wives, mothers,
daughters and sisters to plead for justice
and knock at the gates of labor
until those who have closed them shall
open them unto us."

[*Buffalo Evening News July 13, 1901]
COLORED WOMEN'S
   CONVENTION MADE
               FEATHERS FLY.

Row Over Presidency Continued
      In Contest For
      Other Offices.

CURIOUS PARALLEL
           WAS PRESENTED.

Loving Cup For Mrs. Terrell,
    Former President, Despite
        Undercurrent of Jealousy
              That Existed.

   The merry war in the National Association
of Colored Women continued
yesterday to the last moment.  The
election brought out all the rival ambitions
that were concealed up to that time
in the convention.  After the election of
Mrs. Yates to the presidency and of Mrs.
A. Agnes Booth of Chicago to the second
vice-presidency, there was a rather
smooth sailing until the office of national
organizer was reached.  The struggle
over the position was conducted by
the partisans of Mrs. David of Chicago
and Mrs. Tate of Grand Rapids.  Ten
ballots were had without result, when
Mrs. Tate withdrew and Mrs. Davis was
elected.
   There was a curious parallel in the
convention to the vote in the National
Republican convention of 1880.  In that
convention Garfield nominated Sherman
in a speech so able that it finally nominated
himself, though he was reproached
for the treachery that was alleged 
to be his for his conduct in not
standing for his man.  Mrs. Yates nominated
Mrs. Bruce in a very able speech
and then made no effort to stop her
own election when her name was presented.
Mrs. Washington also seconded
the nomination of Mrs. Bruce and yet
allowed herself to be voted for.  The
women of the convention acted just like
most men under the same circumstances.
   Mrs. Terrell, the former president, received
a loving cup and made a graceful
speech of thanks.  She has been the
head of the organization until now and
is a remarkable woman.  A graduate of
Oberlin of honor rank and mistress of
three languages, she is not only a
woman of scholarly attainments, but of
fine native ability and the accomplishments
that especially distinguish the
woman of culture and refinement.  Her
husband is the principal of the Colored
High School in Washington, and she is
herself one of the able women of the
country, without regard to the color of
the skin, though her own is very fair.
Mrs. Terrell's knowledge of parliamentary
law, though not complete, was not
inferior to that of any other president
of a convention that has been in session
in the city, and superior to nine-tenths
of them.

   In fact, the convention brought together
a remarkable collection of women
of ability.  There was an undercurrent
of jealousy of the Tuskegee representatives,
Mrs. Washington and Mrs.
Bruce, that cropped out in full strength
on the last day.
   The list of officers complete is as follows:
   President, Mrs. J. S. Yates of Kansas
City; first vice-president, Mrs. Booker
T. Washington; second vice-president,
Mrs. Agnes Booth of Chicago; corresponding
secretary, Miss Iona Smallwood
of Allegheny; chairman of executive
committee, Mrs. B. K. Bruce; treasurer,
Mrs. L. C. Anthony of Kansas
City; recording secretary, Miss E. C.
Carter of new Bedford; assistant recording
secretary, Mrs. S. H. Evans of
Buffalo; second assistant recording secretary,
Mrs. J. Holmes of Atlanta; national
organizer, Mrs. L. A. Davis of
Chicago.
   The delegates are spending the day
down the river as the guests of the
Phyllis Wheatley Club of Buffalo.



MONDAY, JULY [*8, 1901]

Association of
      Colored Women
[*Buffalo Times]
National Convention Opens Today at
    Women's Union — Reception for
                       Delegates.

   The National Association of Colored
Women opens its convention today in
the Women's Building.  The speakers
scheduled to take part in the different
sessions are Mrs. Josephine Bruce of
the girls' department of Tuskegee Institute;
Mrs. J. S. Yates of Kansas City;
Mrs. A. W. Hunton of Atlanta, Ga.;
Miss Helen Abbott of St. Louis, Mo.,
who will conduct the kindergarten discussion;
Mrs. Florence Cooper of Memphis,
Tex., who will speak on the ways
and means of establishing cooking
schools; Mrs. Jerome Jeffrey of Rochester;
Mrs. L. A. Davis of Chicago, and
Miss Cornelia Bowen of Waugh, Ala.,
will give readings.  Mrs. S. H. Evans,
president of the Phyllis Wheatley Club
of Buffalo, and Dr. Sarah Howe Morris
will give the addresses of welcome.
The national officers are Mrs. Terrell,
president; Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce of
Tuskegee, Ala., first vice-president;
Mrs. Lucy E. Phillips of Jackson, Tenn.,
second vice-president; Miss M. a.
Lynch, Livingston College, Salisbury,
N. C. corresponding secretary; Connie
E. Curl, Chicago, recording secretary;
Carrie W. Clifford, Cleveland, second
recording secretary; S. Lillian Coleman,
Omaha, Nebraska, third, recording 
secretary; Josephine S. Yates,
Kansas City, treasurer; Mrs. Booker
T. Washington, chairman of executive
committee, and Mrs. Jerome Jeffrey
of Rochester, national organizer.
   At this evening's meeting in Lyric
Hall for visiting delegates the committee
in charge will be Mrs. S H. Evans,
Mrs. John H. Dover, Miss Lena Paul,
Mrs. J. R. Mason, Mrs. James Manuel,
Mrs. William H. Linza, Mrs. William
H. Talbert, Mrs. Charles H. Banks and
Mrs. Adelaide Hamilton.
                          ✷ ✷


COLORED
[*The Buffalo Enquirer]
       WOMEN IN
[*Monday July 8, 1901]
          CONVENTION

PROMINENT WORKERS FOR THE
    ADVANCEMENT OF THE NEGRO
         HOLD FIFTH ANNUAL
              SESSION.

   The fifth annual convention of the
National Association of Colored Women
will open tomorrow in the hall of
the Women's Educational and Industrial
Union.  It is expected that Mayor
Diehl will welcome the delegates in the
usual manner.  Mrs. S. H. Evans, president
of the Phyllis Wheatley Club of
this city, will also make an address of
welcome.
   Among the delegates is Mrs. B. K.
Bruce of Washington, D. C., widow of
the late Senator Bruce, who was for
seven years Registrar of the United
States Treasury.  Mrs. Bruce is now
the woman principal of the Tuskegee
Institute founded and made famous
by Booker T. Washington.  Others
expected to arrive today are Mrs. Rosetta
Douglass Sprague, daughter of
the late lamented Frederick Douglass;
Mrs. Nettie Langston Napier of Nashville,
daughter of the late Hon. John
M. Langston, who was Minister to
Hayti; Miss Josie Holmes of Atlanta,
Ga., one of the teachers in Clark University
and president of the Women's
Club of Atlanta; Miss Libbie Anthony
of Jefferson City, Mo., Mrs. Lizzie W.
Coleman, president of a large school at
Greensville, Miss., and Mrs. Lucy Thurman,
national superintendent of the W.
C. T. U. work among colored women, a
work in which she has been engaged
for twenty-five years.
   The officers of the national association
are: Mrs. Mary Church Terrell,
president; Mrs. Josephine V. Bruce,
first vice-president; Mrs. J. Silone Yates
of Kansas, treasurer; Mrs. Connie Curl
of Chicago, recording secretary, and
Miss Mary Lynch of Livingstone College,
Salisbury, S. C., corresponding
secretary.
   This evening there will be a reception
to the delegates in Lyric Hall, to
which all club women and mean are
cordially invited.

[*Buffalo Express
July 10-1901*]

TO UPLIFT THE NEGRO.

Women of the Race have opened
their convention.

PROMINENT SPEAKERS

NOTED PHILANTHROPISTS ARE HERE 
IN THE INTEREST OF THEIR NEGLECTED 
PEOPLE.

Nearly 350 delegates and visitors attended
the opening session of the second biennial
convention of the National Association 
of Colored Women yesterday morning 
in the hall of the Women's Educational 
and Industrial Union Building. Mrs. May
Church Terrill of Washington, D. C., president,
occupied the chair. On the platform
were seated Mrs. B. K. Bruce of Josephine, 
Miss., Mrs. Booker T. Washington,
Mrs. Lucy Thurman of Jackson, Mich.;
Mrs. J. Salone Yates, Mrs. Jerome Jeffrey,
Mrs. L. B. Anthony and other women 
prominent in the negro movement. After
the singing of "America," Mrs. Lucy
Thurman offered prayer. The presentation
of credentials followed, when the
many delegates of the various States identified
themselves.
The following committees were then appointed
by the president: Credentials,
Mrs. J. Salone Yates, Mrs. J. Jeffrey, Mrs.
L. B. Anthony and Mrs. S. Gray; resolutions, 
Miss L. Carter, Mrs. F. M. Marsell,
Mrs. Beck, Mrs. Lillian Coleman and Mrs.
M. E. C. Smith.
Mrs. Booker T. Washington was invited
to address the assembly, but, owing to 
her recent illness from which she has not
fully recovered, she was forced to decline.
The reading of reports occupied nearly 
three hours, and was an interesting feature
of the meeting. Special enthusiasm
prevailed when the report of the Woman's
Missionary Club of St. Louis, Mo., was 
read, the Chautauquan salute being given
the delegate, Miss Georgia A. Brown. The
club has taken in and paid out the largest
amount of money of any club in the 
association since the last biennial meeting.
The following clubs made reports: Frances
E. Harper League of Pittsburg and
Allegheny, Pa.; Improvement Club, Louisville, 
Ky.; the Frederick Douglass Memorial
Club, Philadelphia, Pa.: Woman's
Home and Foreign Missionary and Educational
Circle, St. Louis, Mo.; Phyllis
Wheatley Club, Nashville, Tenn.; Woman's
Christian Endeavor, Jacksonville, 
Fla.; Women's Loyal Union, Buffalo; Aurora 
Club, Pittsburg, Pa.; Henrietta Club, 
Toledo O.; Children's Friend Club and the
Danville Club, Louisville, Ky.; Woman's 
Christian Union and Harper Union, St.
Louis, Mo.
In the afternoon Mrs. S. Gray of Chicago
read the report of the committee on credentials,
and the delegates were seated by 
States by the president, assisted by Mrs.
L. B. Anthony and Mrs. Lucy Thurman.
The necessity of kindergarten work was
the subject of a paper by Miss Helene
Abbott of St. Louis, Mo., She said:

Often kindergartens are so permeated with the
deep philosophical truths upon which this great
educational work is based, that they neglect to
impress its practical results. We cannot reach any
definite conclusions as to its true worth if we
do not apply these theories in the child's training
and compare results with other methods. In
my own experience it has been a revelation to 
watch and study the child's growth as he has
been brought under the kindergarten influence.
What we want for the child-what we must have
to secure his full and perfect development-is a 
thorough knowledge of him, physically and mentally,
and a perfect understanding of how to meet
the demands of child life which crave the bringing
to a full realization of itself.
Take the child who has had the advantage of
kindergarten training, after he has gone into school
-what should we expect to him there? First, that 
he possesses a greater power mentally to grasp 
the new work; second, that he has been allowed 
to develop physically until his body is ready to
respond to the activity of his mind; third, that 
his intercourse with other children has prepared
him to enter the great social relationship of life
with a keen appreciation of his neighbor's value
and rights, the great factor in the formation of
character.
If we would realize our true selves-respect our
human relationships-be initiated into the intellectual
and practical life of the race, we must place
ourselves in harmony with Nature-man and God.
Education should harmonize the child, tend to make 
him a good member of society and instil lessons
of altruism. The child's association in the 
kindergarten with his equals in age, in kindly 
and sympathetic, intercourse, is in itself a means
of training the character, which even the best
home cannot furnish.
The years our race struggled along against such
great odds morrally have left us a legacy which
surmounts all other consideration in its inheritance.
The women must save the children.

Miss Abbott's address was followed by
an animated discussion on the subject by
Mrs. Davis, Mrs. J. Salone Yates, Mrs.
Moody, Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, Mrs. M.
E. Steward, Miss E. A. Durgan, Mrs.
Hamilton, Miss Josie Holmes, Mrs. Lizzie
Coleman, Miss G. A. White, Mrs. M. E. C. 
Smith, Mrs. J. L. Bolden, Mrs. Fannie
Hall Clinton, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Robinson.
Mrs. M. E. C. Smith suggested that a special
appeal be made by the National Association 
of Colored Women to the heads
of educational departments, requesting
that the kindergarten system of instruction
be added to the course of public instruction
in the leading cities where there
are no kindergartens established for negro
children. A motion was then made that 
the president appoint a committee to attend
to the matter.
In the evening Acting-Mayor Kennedy
welcomed the National Association of 
Colored Women to the city and Dr. Sarah
Howe Morris, welcomed the convention
on behalf of the Christian mothers of
Buffalo.
"It affords me much pleasure," she said, 
"to have the opportunity of welcoming
the association to the city. You will
receive as cordial welcome and as royal
treatment as will any other convention.
The Christian people of Buffalo welcome
you to their hearts and homes." She then
reviewed the progress of the negro race
from the time of the abolition of slavery,
and congratulated them upon having
formed such an organization of women for
the elevation of the race.
Mrs. Susan Evans, president of the
Phyllis Wheatly Club of Buffalo, welcomed 
the visitors in behalf of the clubs of the 
city. She said in part:

It is at the knees of our women that the upright
and virtuous men of the race have been
trained, the most excellent productions of the
world. While I have not been asked to welcome
you in behalf on the clubs, I am sure every
club woman welcomes you. I consider it a high
honor to welcome such a noble band of women.
May your noble work press on. Your strongest
motive power is hopeful, useful work in every
good cause. Were it not that negro women 
know each other's sufferings, each other's
need of sympathy and kindness, and 
that wherever cruelty, ignorance or misery abides,
their sympathetic hands are stretched forth to
alleviate and console, it would not be my privilege
to welcome you here tonight, as we would
have no national association. Out of sympathy
and justice some of the greatest events of modern
times have emanated. Need we mention the 
abolition of slavery in England, America and 
France, the spread of the Gospel and temperance,
the uplifting of the downtrodden in which
men and women of the best classes have taken
so much interest. While we might enumerate
many other events, we need no prophet to foretell
the wonderful results that will be accomplished
by our National Association of Colored
Women. It can be truthfully said of colored
women that they make sacrifices, bear privations,
run risks and exercise patience to a degree
the world never knows of and would scarcely
believe, even if it did know. The desire to
be something more than an insignificant being
and win the respectful consideration of the public
for ourselves and children, and to elevate the
colored race in every respect, has promoted the 
colored women of these United States to bring
into a close union the splendid forces of negro
womanhood.

Mrs. Booker T. Washington responded
briefly to the addresses of welcome, and 
asked Mrs. Bruce to come forward and 
describe the work at Tuskegee. Mrs. 
Bruce referred especially to the mothers' 
meetings, which are often attended by 1,000
women. She also told of the wory Mrs.
Washington is doing for children, establishing
homes, schools, gardens, and workshops.
The negroes of the South, with but 
few exceptions, are in an almost incredible
state of ignorance, and a plea was made by 
Mrs. Bruce for aid from the association
in uplifting their less fortunate sisters
and brothers of the South. In concluding 
her remarks, she spoke of the cordial
hospitality of Buffalo people, and of the 
courteous attention displayed by strangers
upon the streets and conductors on
the street cars..
Mrs. Mary C. Terrill, president, made
her biennial address, in which she said:

Five years ago the National Association of Colored
Women was an experiment. Tonight it is
a magnificent success. The more civilization advances, 
the more clearly it is demonstrated that
women by their influence make or mar the home.
This is simply another way of saying that the
moral status of a people depends to a large extent 
upon the women, for the policy and principles of
a nation are but the reflection of the practices and
the precepts its homes. The responsibility resting
upon all women, therefore, is serious and 
great. But upon none does duty call more loudly
for active service and cheerful sacrifice than upon
the negro women of this country from the very
nature of the case.
The denser the ignorance, and the greater the
degradation of the masses of a people, the harder
should the move favored portions strive to illumine
the minds and improve the morals of those whom
it is in their power to uplift.
It is occasion for congratulation and ground for
hope that the women of the poorest, the most illiterate
and the most oppressed race in this country
are keenly alive to the duties which rest upon 
them and are eager to discharge their obligations
well.
What a large and varied field of usefulness lies
before us, only those know who are conversant
with our needs and see how few there are to minister
to them. As long as there is a system in this
country which for a trivial offence drags men and 
women of our race into cells, whose air space is
less than the cubic contents of a good-sized grave. 
there is something for the thoughtful charitable
colored women to do. As long as hundreds of 
negro children are born in the convict camps of 
the South, breathe the polluted atmosphere of 
disease and crime from the time they utter their
first cry into the world, until they are released 
from its horrors by death, idleness on our part is 
sin.
The joy and pride we experience in the moral
rectitude of our own daughters must be alloyed
with a certain sorrow and shame, if we do nothing
to save the girls of other women, who are ruined,
both because the temptations to which they are
subjected are particularly great and because the
men who wrong them know that they can escape
punishment with ease. It is our duty to expose
the laxity with which laws enacted to protect all
womenkind are executed, when the victim is a 
negro girl. Silence is sometimes golden, but the 
silence which seals the lips of negro women, so 
that they fail to expose the snares set and the
temptations laid for our own girls is the basest
kind of dross. We should present the ugly facts
to the public and do all in our power to change 
public sentiment of those sections which, because
it winks at the destruction of negro girls, is to a 
large extent responsible for it.



[*Buffalo Express July, 10, 1901.*]
Lynching is spreading rapidly and is taking a 
firmer hold upon the people every day. But the 
magnitude of a wrong does not excuse those who
see how heinous it is from trying to crush it. It
is too much to expect, of course, that negro women
will be able to suppress lynching solely through
the efforts which they themselves put forth. I
believe a vast amount of good would be done,
however, if the women of our race petitioned regularly
the legislatures of those States in which
lynchings occur most frequently and should appeal
to those in authority to throw around the
negro criminal the same protection of law which
the white criminal enjoys.
There is a crying need of kindergartens. Hundreds 
of children are reared in the hotbeds of
vice, whose highest ideals are the criminals and 
the moral degenerates with whom they come in
daily contact. When we clasp to our bosom our
own little darlings can we do so with a happiness
unmixed with pain, if we put forth no effort
to rescue those unfortunate little mites, some of
whom it is in our power to save?
As long as lack of employment forces our youth
to idleness or crime, it is the duty of the wives,
mothers, daughters and sisters to plead for justice 
and knock at the gates of labor until those
who have closed them shall open them unto us.
Who can raise the standard of right living and 
correct thinking if not the women of the race? In
the church, in the home, in the school, in society,
we wield an influence which can be made either
a stumbling block or a lever to uplift. Take courage,
therefore, and as far as possible look upon
the bright side of the negro's present status. Let
us consider the achievements in all finance, the progress
along all lines which the negro has made under
such discouraging circumstances during the last
40 years.

Mrs. Terrill's address was followed by a 
selection by a trio from the Buffalo Musical 
Organization. The convention then 
adjourned to meet this morning at 10:30
o'clock at the Women's Union. The speakers
will include Mrs. Frederick Douglass
of Washington, D. C., Mrs. William K.
Talbert and Mrs. Bruce.

Women Prominent in Colored Congress

Mrs. J Silone Yates
Elected President of the National 
Colored Women's Association in 
Buffalo Last Week.

Mrs. Mary Church Terrell.     Mrs. Booker T. Washington     Mrs. Lotti E. Wilson.
[*Buffalo Sunday Times     July 14, 1901*]


[*Buffalo Evening
News  Friday, July 12*] 
12, 1901

THE
CLUBWOMAN 
Any communications
sent to Lady
Betty will receive
due consideration. 

One woman who
has attracted much
attention during the
convention of the
National Association
of Colored
Women, whose sermons
close the day
at the Women's
Union, is Mrs. 
Booker T. Washington,
for the reason
that her husband
is really the
representative of
his race in the
United States at the present time.  He
has risen to prominence because of his
fairness in dealing with the problem of
his race, and because of his advocacy 
of industrial education.  The Atlanta
Constitution, speaking of him, says: 
In a fair review from a Northern
man's standpoint, Mr. Harry Thurston
Peck says of Booker Washington:  "He
is not an orator;  he is not a writer;  he 
is not a thinker;  he is something more
than these--he is the man who comes
at the psychological moment and does 
the thing which is waiting to be done
and which no one else has yet accomplished
*  *  *  By his special knowledge, 
by his special training and by 
his possession of unusual sanity and 
common sense, he seems to have hit 
upon and in some degree already to
have demonstrated a practical solution
of the race problem."  He alludes,
of course, to the industrial education
of the negro. 
Whilst the views and plans of Booker
Washington have been regarded very
favorably by both Northern and Southern 
men, it is obvious that they have 
not been sufficiently tried as yet to
warrant either such strong language
as "demonstrated" nor any decided 
final conclusion.  Southern men have
felt very kindly toward Booker Washington
because he has discouraged antagonistic
feelings between whites and 
blacks, has advised negroes to let politics
alone and to devote themselves to
acquiring property establishing homes 
and developing character.  This is
eminently sensible.  Clearly it is for 
the best interests of both races, so long
as they are associated together, that as
little antagonism and friction as possible
should exist. 

One of the brightest and most capable 
women among the many at the convention
whose sessions have been attracting
widespread attention is Mrs. Bowen
of Montgomery, Ala., where she has
organized a school for colored children. 

Mrs. Mary C. Terril, the president of
the association (also a very bright
woman), introduced Mrs. Bowen in a
most happy manner, praising her work,
and saying that Mrs. Bowen was to the
colored women what Booker T. Washington
was to the men, standing for all
that is high and  progressive, and working
along broad and philanthropic
lines. 


Mrs. Tanner is a forcible speaker, and
her voice could be heard in all parts of
the hall.  All the speakers had the
pleasing accent of the South and very
sweet-toned voices.  Mrs. Tanner told
of the uphill work in establishing the
school, which has grown so rapidly
from such small beginnings.  She particularly
emphasized the necessity of
making the home neat and attractive.
She said she had no use for parlors, and
that when she saw a finely furnished 
parlor in a home, with an ill kept kitchen,
she immediately formed a very unfavorable
opinion of the mistress of
that home.  Altogether her speech was
bright and witty and was enjoyed by all
who heard it. 

A New York delegate, just home from
Minneapolis, where the national women's
suffrage convention was held, was
asked how the leaders felt about the
situation--if they were discouraged or
the reverse, over their continued inability
to secure equal suffrage.  "Discouraged?" 
the delegate repeated,
wonderingly, "why should we be discouraged? 
Let us sum up the situation
in a sentence.  Starting from the point
of no woman suffrage, see what has 
been done.  Australia and New Zealand
have full suffrage.  In England, Scotland,
Ireland and Canada women have
equal suffrage with men except in parliamentary
elections;  this latter will undoubtedly
be gained before long, as the
petitions which have been going to 
Parliament for the last few years have
steadily increased in signatures, from
the hundreds accompanying the first
one a few years ago to the 257,000 signers
of last year.  In the United States 
four States have full suffrage, 22 States 
school suffrage and four taxation suffrage,
our own conservative New York 
State being the latest to join that 
group.  Look, by the way, how that 
quartette of States is distributed--Montana,
Iowa, Louisiana and New York--
a wide radius, which will be likely to
have a leavening influence. 

An attempt to adjust the relation of
mistress and maid is to be undertaken
by six women's clubs of Chicago, and
to that end a school of domestic art
and science will be opened September
30th.  Mrs. P. D. Armour has contributed
all necessary apparatus, including
equipment used in the domestic
science department of Armour Institute. 
Miss Elizabeth D. Bullard, lately in
charge of the Armour School of Domestic
Science, has been engaged to
direct the work, and Miss Henrietta
Connor is to have charge of the sewing
department. 
Lectures will be given each week in
cookery, art in the home and all subjects
generally included under the head 
of domestic science.  The governing
members will be entitled to six lectures,
the housekeepers' conference and a vote
in the government of the school.  Associate
members will have the privilege of 
three lectures available to every woman
of Chicago. 
For maids there will be a course in
practical cookery and instructions in
the preparation of specialties, also
training in special lines, such as the
duties of the second girl and waiting
maid. 
As there is demand for it, the work
will be extended outside of the school.
To any neighborhood where 20 cooks
wish instruction, but cannot attend the
school, a teacher will be sent. 
It is estimated that the expense of the
school from its opening to June 1st 
will be $7,500. 

Mrs. Darwin R. James, president of
the International Council of Women for
Christian and Patriotic Service, in a
recent strong article in the New York
Tribune, brings out the fact of the urgent
necessity for a crusade against
the growth of Mormonism in this country.
Mrs. James' article is apropos of
the widespread sensation that has been
the result of conversion to the Mormon
faith, of two young women officers of
the Endeavor Society of the Congregational
Church.  She explains that converts
are made, not through the truthful
expounding of what the Mormon 
faith really is, but that they are made
through careful evasion of its real principles,
and that guileless and susceptible
young women enter the Mormon
Church entirely ignorant of what it
really means.  She refers to the fact
that in the Southern States, especially,
has such deception been practiced, giving
proofs of her assertion. 
[*Lady Betty*]

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PRAISE CH[AN]CELLOR
BEFORE THE BOARD 

Witness for the Defense
Uphold His Conduct.

GAVEL IN ACTIVE USE

Capt. Oyster Wields It in Sustaining 
Many Objections.

Principals and Teachers on the Witness 
Stand Yesterday Afternoon 
Come Grandly to the Aid of Their
Chief, Declaring His Acts Beneficial 
and Uplifting--Board Grows
Weary of Slowness of the Trial. 

What would you do if you had a chance 
to sit at the head of a long, quartered oak
table in the Franklin School building, surrounded
by the board of education and
a few notebooks, with several witnesses
on one side and a nice new sky-blue blotter
in front of you? 
If somebody, maybe the counsel for 
your own board of education, that was
trying Dr. William E. Chancelor, superintendent
of schools, objected to something
a witness for the defense had said, and
you had a beautifully polished mahogany 
gavel in your hand, wouldn't you be
likely to dent the surface of that nice,
new sky-blue blotter with several consecutive
hard raps? 
That is what Capt. Oyster head of the
District board of education, did yesterday.
The captain had many occasions to
rap on that sky-blue piece of furniture,
because Attorney McNamara, for the
prosecution--the defense had its innings
for the first time yesterday--objected a
number of times. 
May Have Been Piqued. 
Perhaps, the captain felt a little piqued
about having to go below his Monday
record on using the gavel--he sustained
about fifty objections for his attorney on 
that day, and he only had a chance to
sustain seven yesterday. 

But there were aded to these two
chances to rule testimony from the
records, which everybody knows is as
good as an "objection sustained."  And,
then, too, the head of the board had a
small set-to with Attorney Fulton, who
represents Dr. Chancellor, not to speak
of timely jests, which he let out upon the
half daylight of the room. 
So, at the end of the session, after a
number of witnesses had testified--with
a painfully small number of objections
stated--the captain jovially made it
known that the next hearing would be 
held this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and,
likewise, he cordially joked with the reporters
ere they passed through the portals
of the trial room. 
It might be remotely possible, though,
that even that gavel, the sky-blue blotter,
and the seven objections sustained,
without further reference to  the two motions
to strike out portions of the minutes,
would not entirely make up for
the "beautiful" comments one of the witnesses
for Dr. Chancellor made about 
that board of which you might have been
the head.  If those comments had been
made by Miss Reed, a teacher in the 
Western High School, they would probably
sound something like this: 
"For one thing, when I came here, I
felt that among others the system was
two bureaucratic--it was too officialized. 
It as directly due to its being the
Capital City, that it as too much from
the top down.  It was not democratic
enough.  The teachers had but little voice. 
There were too many official superiors.
It was not a discreet thing to say what
you thought, even upon educational matters. 
There was no direct prohibition.
It was in the air that it was discreet to
be silent and to pursue your routine." 
The Line of Testimony. 
The whole line of the testimony of the
defense presented yesterday was that 
tending to prove that Dr. Chancellor has
made the most desirable impression upon
the teachers and principals under his
supervision.  Among the spectators and
others present, possibly even the board
and the blue-blotter were impressed that
it was entirely a day of the "under dog." 
With the exception of the objections sustained, 
the evidence was all of the most
flattering kind, so far as the relations
of the superintendent with his subordinates
are concerned. 
It would have done Dr. Chancellor great
good--for he was not able to be there--if
he could have stepped in while several
of the witnesses, and two of the best for
his side were women, were testifying. 
All of them seemingly tried to be fair, 
in spite of one imputation--one of those 
ordered stricken from the records, but
not from the reporter's notebooks--made
by the captain, that one of the oldest
teachers who was on the stand was answering
unfairly. 
The first witness was William T. Small,
principal of the Eastern High School.  he
was asked about the lectures Dr. Chancellor
had given from time to time to
teachers in the schools of the psycological
effect of psycology. 

"I think these lectures have had an
undoubtedly good effect," he answered. 
When asked about the system of promotions
now in vogue in the Washington
schools, said to have been introduced by
the present superintendent, Dr. Smith
said the system was a good one. 
"There are few large cities in the country,"
he added, "in which this system 
is not used nowadays."
He said that by this system the process
of advancement for bright pupils
was retarded less than by the yearly
system 
Change of Conditions.
Attorney McNamara, on cross-examination,
attempted to show that Mr. Smith
knew nothing about [con]ditios, as they
may have changed sin[ce] [D]r. Chancellor
took charge.  He said the present school
law, and not the superintendent, is responsible
for any good things that have
come out of the Franklin building.
Miss Westcott, principal, who was called

Continued on Page 9, Column 5. 

several days ago, testified that she
had been teaching     Washington since
1890. 
She was asked if she had noticed an
improvement in school affairs since the
coming of Dr. Chancellor. 
"There has been an improvement in
the schools since he came," she said. 
When asked about the establishment of
ungraded schools she said: 
"The establishment of ungraded schools,
was,  in my judgment, one of the good
features."
When asked about the lectures Dr.
Chancellor had been giving, she said: 
"There has been an improvement
(caused by these lectures) in the study
among teachers throughout the District."
When Attorney Fulton sought to question
her further along this line, Mr. McNamara 
objected, and the gavel came
down on the heretofore unsullied surface 
of the table, and the captain said:  "Objection
sustained."  (Number one). 
Attorney McNamara on cross-examination, 
sought to discredit the witness, and
seemed to think she was unfair in her
statements on direct examination.  Mr.
McNamara, after quoting some Latin for
the witness, which, he said meant "after
this, therefore because of this," proceeded
to ask her if she would say what she
thought of Dr. Chancellor.
"I think it is very unfair of you to ask
me to criticize my superintendent," said
Miss Westcott. 
An Unwilling Witness.
Mrs. Mussey then said she didn't think
the witness had been willing.
"This witness," she said, "seems to
have been very willing in direct examination, 
and very unwilling in cross-examination."
Capt. Oyster then rose, all the while 
rapping on the polished mahogany, and
said he, too, thought Miss Westcott had
been unfair.
Attorney Fulton rose quickly, and objected
vigorously to his witness being
talked of in such a manner.  Capt. 
Oyster said he, personally, didn't need
any advice from Mr. Fulton about this
matter, but when Attorney McNamara 
asked the captain's sayings be stricken
from the record, he so ordered.  It crept
into the note books of five reporters
though, and it is here. 

[*Washington Herald     12-12-07*] 
Charles L. Clarke, supervising principal
of the second division, was asked, if,
previous to the coming of Dr. Chancellor,
there had been in force in the District 
schools any rule regarding a time limit 
for studies each day.  He said some
years ago this custom had practically
fallen out of general use, although many
teachers had kept such practice up.  He
explained that by this rule the work 
was systematized, and announced on
cross-examination that it might tend, on
the other hand, to too much system. 
Harry English, head of the department
of mathematics, and a member of the
board of examiners, testified that Dr. 
Chancellor, as a member of that board,
had much work to do.  He was called
to prove that the superintendent had
spent a great deal of time on this work,
and that he had seemed to enjoy it,
nevertheless.  Two objections were registered
against his testimony, however,
with the same results, both on the blotter
and the record. 
Creation of the Law. 
Mr. McNamara stated that the work
of this examining board was the creation
of the law and not of Dr. Chancellor,
and that, therefore, no credit should attach
to the superintendent for carrying
out the law. 
An objection came when Miss Edna K.
Bushee was asked to define her duties. 
"Look at the law," said Mr. McNamara,
"I object to that question."
Again the tragedy of the gavel, the
blotter, and the obliterated record. 
Miss Bushee was asked if she consulted
often with Dr. Chancellor about
her work.  She said she did, and that she
had found him unusually interested in
her work. 
"He was unusually frank--perfectly honest
and straightforward."
When asked about the amount of interest
the superintendent showed in her
part of the school work, she said: 
"I think one might be acting under
the law and yet not show such interest
in this work as Dr. Chancellor has
shown." 
Then the attorney for the prosecution
asked her if she had not consulted as
much with him, as attorney for the board,
as she had with Dr. Chancellor. 
"Not quite so often," she said. 
Then she was asked if she had consulted
with other members of the board. 
She said she had sought advice once in a 
while from one or two.  As she didn't
mention any one, Mrs. Mussey said she 
felt slighted, and the captain said: 
"I'll be getting jealous pretty soon if 
she doesn't say she called on me." 
The captain continued: 
"Don't you think a man who is getting
$5,000 a year ought to be interested
in the work?" 
No one said much about that remark. 
Dr. Dale, teacher of classical languages,
was let off with a few words about Dr. 
Chancellor's work here, but the next 

witness, Miss Reed, referred to before, 
was the star witness of the afternoon.
She was a witness who couldn't be handled
very easily, and when she got to
talking about psychology, Mr. McNamara
was constrained to just look learned and
let her proceed. 
Favorable to Chancellor.
The whole tenor of Miss Reed's testimony
was most favorable to Dr. Chancellor. 
She said his lectures were a source
of inspiration to all the teachers who
heard them. 
Miss Reed talked so fast that even the
reporters couldn't get all she said, and
she said some very good things about
the reliability of the reporters, &c.  Cross-examination
did not shake her, and the 
only point in which the prosecution
scored in the time she was on the stand
was when the captain ordered another
erasure from the minutes. 
Superintendent Bruce was called to tell
more about that famous dinner-something
like the $5,000,000 conspiracy dinner,
mayhap;  but anyway one of importance
in this case.  He reaffirmed all he told
before--but when the attorney for the
defense asked about what kind of refreshments
were served, the gavel hit
the blotter, the witness had to stop, and
the official stenographer enforced a respite. 
Mrs. Terrell said she had nothing to
do with the order issued by her to the
effect that the 54,000 books be discarded.
She said the board hadn't, either. 
That ended the taking of testimony
for the day, but the captain, tired of
swinging the gavel, said it seemed to
him, personally, that the trial had lasted
five weeks, or five months, or five years 
He was sick of it, anyhow, and wanted it
to end right away.  Mr. Fulton said he
expected to have several more witnesses ,
and after than he wanted Dr. Chancellor,
as soon as able, to take the stand and tell
his story.  This, he said, would take four
or five hours.  The board then adjourned
until this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

DOING A GREAT WORK 

[*Buffalo Commercial
- [?]  July 10-1901*] 

Practical Methods Adopted by the
 National Association of
Colored Women.


ELEVATING THE RACE.

Interesting Reports Presented at the
 Second Day's Session--Many
Delegates in Attendance.

The National Association of Colored
 Women. which is holding a four days'
convention in this city, is one of the most
efficient and practical organizations of
its kind in this country. The aim of the
association is to elevate the race which
its members represent, and the methods 
which it has adopted are simple, direct
and successful. It does not idle away its
time in fruitless theorizing and preaching, 
but through the numerous local clubs
which are affiliated with it, it comes into
direct personal contact with the home 
life of the negro all over this great
land.  The association strives to educate
the negro  mothers relative to their 
duty to their children;  it encourages and
assists in the establishment and operation
of kindergarten schools, and in every
practical way aims to improve the home
atmosphere and the moral and intellectual
tone of the race.  The leading spirits
in the association include practically all
of the prominent colored women educators, 
philanthropists and lecturers in the
country. 
The association began its session this
morning shortly after 10 o'clock with
about 100 delegates in attendance.  The
hall in the Women's Educational and
Industrial Union building  where the
convention is being held was prettily
decorated.  Flags were draped from 
the balcony and the platform was embellished
with palms, flowers and the
Stars and Stripes. 
Reports of various clubs, affiliated with
the association, were presented this
morning.  One of the most interesting
reports presented was that of the Harriet
Beecher Stowe Club of Washington, D. 
C., the home of Mrs. Terrell, the president
of the national association.  This
club is composed exclusively of teachers 
and former teachers in the schools of
Washington and vicinity. 
Mrs. J. E. Holmes, the state organizer
of Georgia, presented a report from the
Women's Club of Marietta, Ga.  Among
other things the club reported that it had 
purchased a number of sheets and pillow
cases which it loaned out to sick people,
such a step having been found necessary
owing to the destitution prevailing among
colored people. 
Mrs. Georgia De Baptiste Faulkner
of Chicago reported on the work of the
clubs in that city.  Other reports were
made by Mrs. Emma A. Talbot of the
Minerva Reading Club of Cleveland, O., 
and Mrs. E. A. Durgan of the Tuskegee
Women's Club of Tuskegee, Ala. 
Mrs. Durgan said there had been considerable
improvement during the last
few years in the condition of the people
included in the territory covered by the
club.  For instance, last year many colored
families reported that they were 
raising their own vegetables and chickens
which had not been the case in previous
years. 

Reports also were made by Miss Nellie
A. Baker of the 'King's Daughters' Circle 
of Cleveland, O., Mrs. Mary Sellers of
Cleveland, Mrs. Cora Page of the Women's
Aid Club of Peoria, Ill., Mrs. 
Mamie R. Walker of the Missionary 
Club of Chicago, Miss Dora Johnson of
the Dunbar Club of Norwalk, O. 
Mrs. Anthony of Jefferson City, Mo., 
chairman of the ways and means committee,
read a paper on "Systematic Giving."
Mrs. Booker T. Washington, hairman
of the executive committee, submitted
her report. 
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Sterrette, chief of
the negro women's department of the
Charleston Exposition, addressed the association
briefly.  She urged the association
to assist in the work of collecting at
the Charleston Exposition exhibits showing
the progress made by the colored race
in America.  The morning session was
then adjourned. 


SOCIETY 
[*The Buffalo Enquirer*]
-----INI-----
[*Friday, July 12, 1901*] 
BUFFALO 

The largest affair in the social world
yesterday was the reception given to
Mr. and Mrs. Booker T. Washington by
the Twentieth Century Club.  During
the afternoon, Mr. Washington gave a 
talk on the work at Tuskegee and the 
wonderful results it is accomplishing.
He is a n impressive talker, whose
slightest expression carries the weight
of earnestness with it. 
Over 200 guests attended the reception.
The club house was gay with
palms and blossoming plants for the
occasion.  The guests were received in
the court, which was effectively decorated
with hollyhocks.  Mrs. A. F. 
Wright and Mrs. F. L. A. Cady introduced 
the club members to the Washingtons. 
Among other distinguished
persons at the reception were Mrs.
Mary Church Terrill, president of the
Colored Women's Convention;  Mrs. B. 
K. Bruce, widow of former Senator
Bruce of Mississippi, and Mrs. Rosette
Douglass Sprague, daughter of Frederick
Douglass.  Mr. Washington was 
in the city but a few hours.  He came 
not so much for the convention as to
attend to some Tuskegee matters.  He
left for home last night. 
Mr. and Mrs. Washington are an
interesting couple, not only because of
the wonderful work they are accomplishing
for their race, but also because
of their striking personalities.
Mr. Washington is serious, thoughtful
and impresses one as a man who is
ever thinking of his work, his people
and how best to help them. Mrs. Washington, 
on the other hand, is jovial, 
happy and always smiling.  When I
asked her if she was satisfied with
the progress made by her people she
answered:  "We must be.  Long ago
I made up my mind to only look at the
good results and never see the discouraging
side, for I saw that was
the only way to succeed." 


[*Jul*]
[*The Buffalo Express*] 

CONVICT-LEASE SYSTEM
[*July 12, 1901*] 
It enables the State to traffic in
Humanity. 

STARTLING ASSERTIONS 

MRS. FREDERICK DOUGLASS ADDRESSED 
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF COLORED WOMEN. 

The interest in the convention of the
National Association of Colored Women
increases with each meeting and the attendance
continues to grow.  Last evening's
session was opened with the chanting
of the Lord's Prayer by the Illinois
delegation, followed by a musical selection
by the members of the Buffalo Musical 
Association.  The president, Mrs. Terrill,
occupied the chair in the same graceful
manner that has excited so much favorable
criticism. 
Mrs. Frederick Douglass gave an interesting
address on "The Convict Lease
System."  In her preliminary remarks
she referred to the influences that have 
led to the difference in the conditions of
the North and the South.  Her address 
consisted of testimony from the South,
and presented some startling facts regarding
the condition of the negro in the
slave States.  The law requires that each
State shall support its prions, but the 
slave States refuse to pay taxes for the 
maintenance of prisons, and, in consequen, 
the convicts are leased to penitentiary
companies, railroads, mine owners
or private individuals for a term of
years.  it is seldom that any of the leased
convicts live out their lease, and the
State is not the loser, for it can readily
replace him with another.  The demand is
greater than the supply, and for that reason,
innocent free men are seized and put
into the convict chains.  This slavery is
even worse than existed before the Civil
War, for their treatment is said to be worse
and their work harder.  Hhe convicts are
leased to coal and phosphate mines, turpentine
camps, on the railroads and plantations.
It is not infrequent that they 
are whipped to death or shot, and they all 
carry upon their backs the scar of the
captain's prod.  The convict camps are
filthy and unfit for habitation, and the
food is scant and poor.  The men and the
women are huddled together in the camps,
the latter being made to work in many
cases at the same employment as do the
men.  Children are born in the camps and
spend a lifetime there.  There is no effort
to release them, and they become the
property of the camp, body and soul. 
Florida and other States in which the
convict-lease system obtains lease their 
convicts every year to the highest bidder.
In Anderson County, South Carolina,
Mrs. Douglass said that there are
owned by private individuals 1,000 slaves, 
and recently this state of affairs was legalized
by a decision of the courts of that 
county.  In many instances the slaves are
obtained through small debts.  If a negro
owes a white man a little sum of money
the creditor insists that he be paid in
work.  The negro agrees to this, and
signs a contract to work for the creditor
until the debt is paid.  The debt is never
paid. The negro is placed in a stockade 
as in the days when slavery was countenanced
the country over, and is kept the 
property of the master.  If he should attempt
to escape, he is captured by the
bloodhounds or shot by a guard. 
Mrs. Lizzie W. Coleman of Greenville,
Miss., was the next speaker.  She discussed
the needs of the negro, saying in
part: 
"We need the kindergarten to start the
young out in life with the desire to do
things systematically.  We need schools
and lectures for the old, and night schools
for those who must earn their living during
the day.  We need homes for the orphans
and the disabled, and we must have 
money with which to accomplish all these
things.  May we devote ourselves to the
building up of an intelligent, moral, religious 


people, who are self-reliant, independent,
self-supporting, performing with 
dignity their work, increasing the resources
and wealth, and elevating the tone
of the whole race by well-directed efforts 
along the lines where virtue, peace and 
usefulness lead the way." 
The national organizer of the W.C.T.U., 
Mrs. Rosette E. Lawson of Washington,
D C., gave an address on child study with
particular reference to the adolescent
age.  She said: 

Prior to the meeting of the educational congress
at the World's Fair in Chicago, when the national
society for the study of children was organized
under the name of the American Association for
the Study of Children, very little attention had
been paid to the subject of child study by the
educators in this country.  The movement received 
its first and distinctive impulse in Germany in
1869.  Even there it was difficult to arouse any 
considerable interest on the part of the teachers,
consequently, the results were incomplete, inacurate 
and productive of little educational value beyond
that of suggestion.  This crude beginning
was supplemented by the studies of Darwin, Lazarus,
Paine and the invaluable publications of
Preyer in 1879-80, when the movement began in
this country.  So far as scientific investigation extends, 
the credit belongs entirely to Americans. 
Although initiated by foreigners more has been
accomplished here than in all the rest of the world
combined.  The first investigations were based
upon the physical measurements of thousands of 
children, between the ages of five and eighteen 
years, but indispensable as are these fundamental 
investigations they have been completely overshadowed 
by the study of the child's mind under
the leadership of Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president of
Clarke University, the father and chief promoter
of the present child-study movement.  These investigations
now extend to the common schools,
throwing light on many school problems and like
aid is rapidly coming to college problems.  This 
study of the child is the greatest educational
advance of the century.  It is pregnant with the
greatest possibilities and now regarded as fundamentally
important in all educational work. 
There are three periods in the development of
the child, that from 1 to 7 years being a period of
growth, 7 to 14 years, a period of rest, 14 to 21
a period of growth. 
During the first period is the parents' opportunity 
so to order the child's entire life as to give it 
an unswerving impulse in all that pertains to its
health and happiness.  Here the mother's invoice
of righteousness should be large and daily drafts
from heaven invoked as she guides her child 
through the period of teething, lisping and walking.
Here virtues tending to correct habits should
be carefully inculcated.  Through the lullabies of
infancy, the Bible stories of childhood, the moral
influence of toys, the teaching of temperance, honesty,
obedience and merciful action, the mother
should construct a fortress which will enable the
children to "rise up and call her blessed."  Proper 
ideas of diet, sleep, dress and care for the general
health should be insinuated.  The mind must here
receive its bent for life through the training of
the senses, the muscles and the will.  Through 

imitation,  expression and retentiveness, the
aesthetic taste and imagination must be cultivated; 
the emotions developed through pity, sympathy,
hope and fear and the affections become
strong by a proper exercise of love and mercy. 
Religious training should not here be forced in
these tender years of childhood, but gradual obedience,
truthfulness, love of Nature and Nature's
God should lead up to acceptation of the Heavenly
Father.  Let the religion of the child be shown in
the sentiments it directs to its mother. 
At the age of seven to fourteen years rapid
strides in growth are not remarkable.  Nature here
seems to conserve her forces preparatory to the advent
of a period fraught with greater danger 
and solicitude.  Life is here spent in the realm of
the senses preparatory to its awakening to a world 
of thought. 
The adolescent period between 14 and 21 years 
is regarded as more important than that of childhood, 
because it is fraught with greater dangers
and larger possibilities than any other period
of life. 
The study now begins to attract general attention
and promises to bring in a new era of
education in the years between childhood and
adult life. 
Says Prof. Lancaster, the growing interest in
adolescence is one of the new "signs of promise"
that a greater freedom, a love and sympathy 
hitherto unknown, shall become the inheritance
of all young persons.  Savage tribes have long
observed the period as one demanding special
treatment, and enlightened people have expressed 
deep concern for the young at this age, but in
both cases youth suffers because it is misunderstood. 
The advent of the adolescent period has been
called by the Germans a period of storm and
stress.  Savage races turn their children over
to the medicine-man at this period that he may
be instructed concerning the rapid development
through which he must pass.  Well, indeed, may
we sit at their feet and learn, when we think
that enlightened parents, hindered by a kind of
mock modesty, withhold from their children facts
concerning themselves, which ultimately reach
them through vile and vicious sources.  The hardest
time in life to live is from 12 to 20.  At
this time the adolescent receives from nature a
new capital of energy and altruistic feeling,
likened to regeneration.  It is physiological second
birth, and is ushered in with certain internal
developments, followed by external phenomena
known to all persons of intelligence. 

Just as a study of physchology of childhood is
an indispensable part of the preparation of every
teacher in the lower grades, so a study of
adolescence should form a part of the education
of every teacher in the higher institutions.  The
wonderful growth in all directions should be understood
by all intelligent persons dealing wit
adolescents. 
How often the growth in the bones becomes
so rapid that the muscles cannot keep pace with 
them resulting in a stretching of the muscles 
producing growing pains, how when the muscular
system grows faster than the bones a clumsy
result follows as seen in a boy who runs against
everything and drops whatever he touches or
tumbles over it  in trying to pick it up. 
Ill-fed children cannot endure mental fatigue
at this time.  The appetite changes, being largely
due to the new growth and new demands of
the body.  An adolescent needs a large variety
of food.  Terrible headaches from defective eyes 
are often the case.  Large numbers of arrests are 
made during this period, but the boy who fails
of arrest up to eighteen years will hardly be 
arrested after than age. 
This is the time for the beginning of ideals. 
The ideals of the adolescent change often, as
may be observed in his manner and ways of
speaking, walking and dressing.  This new life
often requires new speech, which is often acquired
with painful awkwardness.  They find
difficulty in telling the truth and in expressing
their thoughts to those not in sympathy with
them.  Love of solitude, fondness for reading,
are characteristics of this age, and it is the golden
opportunity to cultivate the taste and teach
against the worst forms of the reading habit. 
Love of roaming, of truancy and of solitude
are representative of the new life which has 
been excited in the child through the changes
incident to his age.  We should bear and forbear
with this apparent irresponsibility at this age
and try our best to tide the youths over to a 
safe and secure haven.  The desire to yell, to
slam the door, to bang and knock things around
and throw off restraint are worthy both our respect
and indulgence. 
Anyone who has observed boys at this age can
see in them a disposition to strike out for themselves. 
They want to leave school;  they do not
find home attractive and often rebel against the
authority of both home and school.  They seem to
be smothered by a feeling that home is shut.  They
want to travel, to try the world for themselves. 
This desire is an instinct as old as the race and
common to all animal life. 
It is like the migratory instinct of birds and
may spring suddenly from the most obedient and
well-bred children.  This is not a sign of degeneration
or of less love for home or parents.  On
the contrary, it is often associated with the most
intense love of home and family. 
This sudden rebellion often surprises the child
as much as the parent, and is another instinctive
habit. 
Sympathy, not punishment, is the proper corrective,
and herein lies my appeal for patience and
forbearance in dealing with the youth at this trying
period of life.  
Adolescents find a delightful and unique sympathy
in nature.  In it they are taught rest and self-control. 
They flee to nature from all the elements
warring within their own souls.  To many it seems
the very support of life itself.  It gives a time
for thought and meditation which the awakened 
soul now demands.  Many find strength in trees, 
moral courage in rocks, activity suggested by the
waving of trees and running of streams. 
Girls should be shielded from overstrain in work
and study and careful attention give to their development
by the mother in the home and a wise
teacher of physical culture in the school.  Danger
to physical and mental health is exceedingly
great.  Healthy associates, healthy homes nad
healthy books are essential for a satisfactory
mental environment of the adolescent.  A life free
from want, care and toil is necessary for the
mental and physical development of the child,
and since the physical stature is not complete before
the 19th or 20th year, every child is entitled
to 19 or 20 years free from undue toil and restrictions. 

Mrs. Josephine Bruce, first vice president
of the National Association of Colored
Women, presided at the morning
session of the convention yesterday.  The
session was devoted to business.  A
number of new clubs were added to the
national association and the chairmen of
various committees made their reports. 
Reports were received from some of the
clubs which had not reported during the
preceding days of the convention.  Among
these were the Phyllis Wheatley Club of
Chicago, Ill., which has been instrumental
in closing at least one saloon, but
not after the fashion of Carrie Nation; 
the Amity Social and Literary Club of
Buffalo, which has been co-operating to
a great extent with the Phyllis Wheatley
Club of this city;  the Willing Workers
of Detroit and the Women's Loyal Union
of New Bedford, Mass. 
The early part of the afternoon session
was turned over to the W.C.T.U., in
charge of Mrs. Lucy Thurman of Jackson,
who is superintendent of the negro
department of the National W.C.T.U.  In
her preliminary remarks she reviewed 
the progress of the organization since
she first entered into the work, 25 years
ago.  Since then she has devoted the 
greater part of her life to the temperance
cause, traveling all over the country 
wherever she could aid in the work,
many times finding it necessary to take
with her a little infant.  When she began 






the work of organizing the branches of
the W.C.T.U. there was but one branch
established among the negroes.  That one
was in Georgia and was in such a bad
condition that even it had to be reorganized. 
Mrs. Frances E. Harper of Philadelphia,
Pa., who was a member of the crusaders,
and is now one of the greatest
temperance workers of the race, gave a
brief talk on the size and work of the 
organization.  Mrs. Rosetta Losson of
Washington, D. C., national organizer,
was the next speaker.  She told of her
work of love and self-denial and re-
with which she had to contend.  Her
ferred to the many disagreeable things
greatest aim is to uphold the purity of
the women of the world.  Among other
speakers on temperance subjects were
Mrs. Gray of San Francisco, Mrs. Elizabeth 
F. Sterrette of Charleston, S. C., 
and Mrs. W. H. Scott of Lathrop, Mo. 
Mrs. Jerome Jeffrey of Rochester, national
organizer of the National Association
of Colored Women, addressed the
meeting on the subject of "Organization,"
in which she said: 
"Organization is the first step in nation 
building, the first step in progressive
movement.  It begins at the foundation
of all civilization and builds upon
approved lines the character, habits and
usages that are necessary to be inculcated
to fit us to fill our proper places as
a part of the American nationality. 
"If white women feel the need of unity
of thought, sympathy and purpose and
resort to organized effort to overthrow 
ignorance and injustice,  how infinitely
more do negro women need to bind themselves
in organized bodies, to overthrow
prejudice and injustice."
The speaker went on to say that a national
musical organization among negroes
cannot but prove beneficial and
predicted that it would finally be recognized 
superior to the National Saengerbund.
She also advocated the organization 

of political clubs among negro women.
If women do not desire the right
to vote, they can at least look into the
affairs of the country and exercise a
potent influence to put in office men who
will be rules by justice and who will see
that women as well as men are given
their privileges and rights.  Men say that
women jump at conclusions, which may be 
quite true, but in her haste if she is not
able to fill the country's offices with as
good incumbents as man has chosen for
the last few years through his more deliberate
method, she should be willing to
take a back seat ever after. 
After a paper on "The Value of Organization"
was presented by Mrs. Davis
of Chicago, the convention adjourned to
attend a reception in its honor at Union
Bank Hall, given by the Women's Loyal
Union, from 4 to 6 o'clock.  About 175 
guests were present and were received by
the president of the union, Mrs. Josephine
Wilson, and the secretary, Mrs. A. M. 
Thomas.  The hall was profusely decorated
with yellow and white bunting and
palms and the tea table was graced with
cut flowers.  An orchestra furnished music
during the entertainment. 
The convention closes this evening
when addresses will be given by several
women, prominent in the association.  The
election of officers will take place this
morning. 


are being subjected to change.
[*The Buffalo Express
July 8-1901*]
BRIGHT NEGRO WOMEN.

INTERESTING CONVENTION AT THE WOMEN'S UNION.

ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT IN THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH LAST EVENING.

The executive session of the third biennial 
convention of the National Association 
of Colored Women will be held at the 
Women's Union at 10.30 o'clock this morning. 
Hundreds of prominent negro women 
from all sections of the United States 
are in the city and will be present at the 
sessions of the convention, which will be 
held at 9.30 a.m. and 8 p.m., from Tuesday 
to Friday of this week. The entire programme 
has not yet been arranged, but 
among Tuesday's speakers will be the acting 
Mayor, who will give the address 
of welcome, and Dr. Sarah Howe Morris, 
whose subjection will be, "Influence of Christian 
Motherhood."  The responses will be 
made by Mrs. Booker T. Washington and 
Mrs. Susan Evans, and the president of 
the association, Mrs. Mary C. Terrill, will 
give her biennial address.  At the Wednesday 
morning session, Mrs. Frederick 
Douglass of Washington, D.C., will speak 
on "The Convict Lease System."  Mrs. William 
K. Talbert will give an address on 
the "Reasons for Placing Correct Literature 
Before Our Children," and Mrs. A. 
K. Bruce of Washington, D.C., will give 
an address on "Facts."  On Thursday Mrs. 
Helena Abbott of St. Louis, Mo., Miss 
Cornelia Bowen of Mount Meigs, Ala., and 
Mrs. Neille Langdon Napier of Nashville, 
Tenn., will give addresses on "Kindergarten 
Work" and "Nurseries for Young Children." 
Mrs. Rosetta Lawson of Washington 
will speak on the "Study of Childhood." 
Mrs. Lizzie W. Coleman of Greenville, 
Tenn., will speak on "Life in the 
South." At a special meeting of the Phyllis 
Wheatley Club, which was held in the 
Michigan Street Baptist Church at 3.30 
o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Terrill 
gave an interesting address, in which she 
spoke of the work being done by the organizations 
of negro women throughout 
the United States and of her pleasure in 
being able to be present at the convention.
Mrs. A. K. Bruce gave an address on 
the "Value of Organization" and Mrs. R. 
A. Lawson gave a talk on "The Observations 
of a Club Woman."
Mrs. Mary Terril, president of the association, 
gave an address at the First Congregational 
Church on the corner of Elmwood 
Avenue and Bryant Street at 8 
o'clock last evening. She said:
"Let the future of colored women be 
judged by the past, since their emancipation, 
and neither they nor their friends 
have any cause for anxiety. Though 
there are many things in the negro's 
present status to discourage him, he has 
some blessings for which to be thankful. 
Not the least of these is the progress of 
our women in everything which makes for 
the culture of the individual and the elevation
of the race.  Only 40 years ago the
great masses of colored women bowed under
the yoke of bondage, subjected to
hardships which neither human nor divine
law seemed to soften, and surrounded 
by influences which put a premium 
upon immorality and made chastity and
impossibility.  When Ernestine Rose,
Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone and Susan B. 
Anthony began that agitation by which 
colleges were opened to women, and the 
numerous reforms inaugurated for the
amelioration of their condition along all
lines their sisters who groaned in bondage 
had little reason to hope that these blessings
would ever brighten their crushed
and blighted lives.  For during those days 

of depression and despair, colored women
were not only refused admittance to institutions
of learning, but the law of
the States in which the majority lived
made it a crime to teach them to read.
Not only could they possess no property,
but even their bodies were not their own.
Nothing, in short, that could degrade or
brutalize the womanhood of the race was
lacking in that system form which colored
women then had little hope of escape." 
"And yet, in spite of the opposition encountered
and the obstacles opposed to
their acquisition of knowledge and their 
accumulation of property, the progress
made by negro women along these lines
has never been surpassed by that of any
people in the history of the world.  Though
the slaves were liberated less than 40 
years ago, penniless and ignorant, with
neither shelter nor food, so great was 
their thirst for knowledge and so herculean
were their efforts to secure it, that
there are today hundreds of negroes,
many of them women, who are graduates, 
some of them having taken degrees from
the best institutions of the land.  From 
Oberlin, that friend of the oppressed
--Oberlin, my dear alma mater--whose
name will always be loved and whose
praise will ever be sung as the first college
in the country which was just, broad
and benevolent enough to open its doors
to negroes, and to women, on an equal
footing with men, from Wellesley and
Vassar, from Cornell and Ann Arbor, from
the best high schools throughout the
North, East and West, negro girls have
been graduated with honors, and have 
thus forever settled the question of their
capacity and worth.  A few months ago, in
Chicago, a large number of young men 
and women of the dominant race, and only 

one negro girl, competed for a scholarship
entitling the successful competitor
to an entire course through the Chicago
University.  As the result of the examination
which was held, the only negro
girl among them stood first and thus
captured this great prize.  Wherever negro
girls have studied their instructors bear
testimony to their intelligence, their
diligence and their success. 
"Through the National Association of
Colored Women, which was formed by the
union of two large organizations in July,
1896, much good has been done in the past, 
and more will be accomplished in the
future, we hope.  Believing that it is only
through the home that a people can become
really good and truly great, the
National Association of Colored Women
has entered that sacred domain.  Homes
--more homes, better homes, purer homes,
is the text upon which our sermons have
been and will be preached.  We would have
heart-to-heart talk with our women that
we may strike at the root of evils, many
of which lie, alas, at the fireside.  If the
women of the dominant race, with all the
centuries of education, culture and refinement
back of them, with all the wealth
of opportunity ever present with them, 
feel the need of a mothers' congress that
they may be enlightened upon the best 
methods of rearing their children and
conduction their homes, how much more
do our women, from whom shackles have
but yesterday been stricken, need information
on the same vital subjects.  And 
so we are working with might and main
to establish mothers' congresses on a
small scale, wherever our women can be
reached. 
"The National Association of Colored
Women has chosen as its motto, 'Lifting
as We Climb.'  In order to live up to this
sentiment its members have determined
to come into the closest possible touch 
with the masses of our women, by whom, 
whether we will or no, the womanhood of
our people will always be judged.  It is 
unfortunate, but it is true, that a majority
of the dominant race in this country
insists upon judging the negro by his
lowest and most vicious representatives
instead of by the more intelligent and
worthy classes.  It is, therefore, of the 

greatest importance that the more favored
colored women should try to influence
for good their illiterate and unfortunate
sisters, through whom it is possible
to correct may of the evils which
militate so strongly against us, and inaugurate 
the reforms without which as a 
race we cannot hope to succeed. 
"To our own youth, to our own tradesmen
we are preaching reliability and thorough
proficiency.  We are also appealing to
our large-hearted, broad-minded sisters
of the dominant race.  We are asking that
they both observe themselves and teach
their children to respect the lofty principles
of justice and humanity upon
which this Government was founded, and
of which their own consciences approve.
We are asking, also, that they train their
children to be broad and just enough to
judge men and women by their intrinsic
merit rather than by the adventitious

circumstances of race or color or creed.
Negro mothers are asking their white
sisters to teach their children that when
they grow to be men and women,  if they 
deliberately prevent their fellow creatures
from earning an honest living by 
closing the doors of trade against them,
the Father of all men will hold them responsible
for the crimes which are the
result of their injustice, and for the
human wrecks which the ruthless crushing
of hope and ambition always makes. 
In the name of American children, black
childhood as well as white, negro women
are asking their white sisters to do all
in their power to make the future of our
boys and girls as bright and as promising
as should be that of every child born in
a country which owes its existence to
the love of liberty in the human heart." 
Among the prominent women who have
already arrived are Mrs. A. K. Bruce of
Washington, D.C., the wife of the late
former-Register Bruce of the United States 
Treasury.  Mrs. Bruce is the vice president
of the association and is the principal
of the Tuskegee school of Booker
T. Washington fame. 
Mrs. Josie E. Holmes of Atlanta, Ga., 
who is connected with the Clare University,
and who represents the Atlanta
Women's Club;  Mrs. A. D. Hunton, wife of 
the national secretary of the Y.M.S.A. 
and who is the president of the kindergarten
schools of Atlanta, Ga.;  Mrs. Lillian
Coleman of Omaha, Neb., president of the
Omaha Women's Club;  Mrs. R. A. Lawson,
the national organizer of the W.C.T.U. of
Washington, D.C.;  Mrs. N. S. Napier of
Nashville, Tenn., a prominent church and
club woman. 
A reception to the delegates will be given
by the members of the Phyllis Wheatley
and Amity clubs in Lyric Hall from
8 to 10 o'clock this evening.

The Clarinda Herald
CHAUTAUQUA DAILY. 

Wednesday, August 15, 1900

THE QUEEN OF HER RACE

Mrs. Terrell Delivers a Magnificent 
Address Before the Assembly
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell has come, 
and spoken, and conquered. She 
came on Tuesday afternoon. She delivered 
her address on the work of the 
colored women of her race a short
time after she arrived, and last evening 
she was the "lioness of the hour."
She won all by her beautiful, unassuming 
manner, her sweet face, and 
her stirring, inspiring words. Her
subject was a vast one, and one not
easily handled. But the "Female
Booker T. Washington" had complete 
mastery of her subject. She had studied 
it long and well, through bitter
personal experience and observation
of others of her race, and her appeal 
for "justice of her brethren and sisters
was powerful and pathetic. It is the 
first time a Clarinda audience has ever 
heard of Mrs. Terrell. We have heard
of her for many years, and now that
we have heard her on our own platform, 
we feel highly honored. By her
words she has given the people of Clarinda 
and vicinity a higher regard for 
the colored race, and inspired them to
feel that justice and equality must be
granted to the weaker people. 
Mrs. Terrell was introduced by Mrs. 
J. W. Dill.  A short synopsis of her
address, which continued for over an
hour with unabated interest, is as
follows:--
Not the least among the things 
for which the colored race has to be
thankful, said the speaker, is the progress
made by the women in the race.
Under the old rule of the colored race,
women were not only denied any education,
but every degration of body
and soul was heaped upon them.  The
most cruel thing they have to fight
now is the prejudice against their 
races, as well as the prejudice against
women.  In spite of their difficulties,
their progress has never been surpassed
in the history of the world.  From
Oberlin, the first college to open its 
doors to women on an equality with
men, and to the colored race, and
from many other colleges where colored
girls have studied, they have won
honors for themselves and for their
race.  Fully ninety per cent of the
colored women who are working for
their race in the back woods of the
south, where their labors are not in
sight of the public eye. 
The National Association of Colored
Women was formed to enlist all women
of the race in helping to build up 
the whole race, for we believe that if
left entirely to the men, our progress
would be slow.  The association labors
largely through the home, to effect its
object.  Mothers' Congresses are the
leading sub-organizations, and they
have met with signal success. 

In many sections of the south, under 
the evil influence of plantation owners,
the condition of the colored people
is not better than it was before the
war.  The Association provides for
them talks on social purity, encourages
them to send their children to
school, teaches them how to cook,
wash, mend, take care of their homes,
etc., in the best manner. 
Much as has been said against the
morality of colored women, statistics
will show that they are not so depraved
as are white women in similar circumstances, 
as found in European
countries.  These figures give encouragement
to our race. 
Schools for theoretical and practical
education are established and others
are being started all over the south. 
Many trained nurses among the women
of the race are patronized by the best
people of the south.  Miss Laney 's
wonderful work in founding the Haines
Industrial School, which now has
buildings worth $20,000 and over 500
pupils, is but one of many examples of
work and sacrifice by colored women. 
We are told that the colored youth
are criminally inclined.  Much of this
criminality is due to the poor, degraded
homes from which these youths
come. 
Colored women are everywhere
reaching out after the little children, 
in order that they may have proper
training at the beginning of their
lives, at least. 
Kindergarten schools are being established,
and day nurseries are now
helping poor mothers to have good
care taken of their babies while they
work during the day.  Many poor 
mothers are compelled to lock their
infants in their little hovel-homes all
day, while they are away at work. 
Others are compelled to board their
babes out to careless families, at a 
cheap rate.  Many instances of deformity
and death result from this 
awful but necessary treatment.  In
the kindergarten schools the little
ones are impressed with the importance
of having pure thoughts and
motives, and of doing their best to
benefit their brethren. 
Schools for the aged are also established, 
but the greater attention
and effort are spent on the little ones,
whose characters are yet pliable and
in whom lies the hope of the race. 
The motto of the Association is
"Lifting While We Climb."  We often
are discouraged because we cannot
induce our own sisters to accept our
aid, but as this trouble is general with
all races, we take hope again.  The
movement against employing colored
women in many of the large institutions
of the country is a serious menace
to our race.  Employers say that 
colored women are neither skillful nor
reliable.  As many of our families depend
upon the mothers for their support, 
we are impressing upon our women
that they must overcome these
objections or the race will not rise.  It
is easy for a white mother's heart to
thrill as she gazes at her baby's face,
for to the little one every avenue of
success is open, if he but as ability
and ambition.  To the colored 
mother's heart there can be no such 
thrill, but rather a tremble of despair,
for she knows that no matter how ambitious
or able her child may be, every
avenue he enters will be blocked by
prejudice, every attempt at success
he makes will be opposed and overthrown
if possible by the dominating
race, because they have no trust in
him.  We are asking that the dominant
race teach their children to be
broad and generous enough to judge 

all and treat all according to their intrinsic
worth.  In the name of our
children we plead for at least fair 
treatment, so that our children may
be raised with hope of success in life. 
The health of the colored race, because
of poorly provided homes and
poor clothing, has become a serious
problem. 
Our women are acquiring fame as
business managers, dress-makers, dentists,
doctors, and even sculptors, 
painters and musicians. 
We are trying to teach our race that
the double standard of morality for
the sexes, among the white race, is a
gross and fearful error, and that the
women must be kept pre by having
nothing to do with men who are not
pure. 
Against all the iniquitous laws and
prejudices against us in the south, we
are raising our most powerful hand; 
and judging from the marvelous progress
of our race under such discouraging
surrounding, we believe and
console ourselves with the thought 
that the darkest hour is just before
the dawn, and that what may seem to
us discouraging now, may be but the
fore-runner of the bright day that is
coming for our race. 


[*Clarinda  Herald  8-15-00     2d  Sheet.*] 

Mrs. Terrell is a wonderful woman.
Her race has cause to be very proud
that they have such a woman among
them.  She is largely self-made.  Born 
in Memphis, Tennessee, nearly forty
years ago, she removed to Ohio with 
her parents when she was but six years 
old.  There she developed a great
longing to secure an education.  When 
Oberlin College opened its doors to
the women and the colored race, she
entered as a student, and was graduated
in 1884, the youngest member of
her class.  It is a matter of record
that she won many honors during her
college course, as well as the respect 
and admiration of her fellow students. 
After graduation she engaged 
for a [tim]e  in teaching, but soon went to
Euro[pe] [t]o study, spending three years 
there, [upon] her return she met her present
husband and they were married 
nine years ago.  They have one child
--Phyllis Church Terrell--the sweetest
little baby that ever lived, as Mrs. 
Terrell describes her.  Their home is
in [Wash]ington, D. C., where her husband 
is principal of the high school. 
Mrs. Terrell was for a number of
years a member of the school board in
Washington City, but she wants it
distinctly understood that she resigned
before her husband was elected
on the high school faculty, and for the
very reason that she did not want people
to say that she had gotten him a
job.  She is not now a member of the
board.  She is president of the National 
Association of Colored  Women,
and holds other positions of honor and
trust.  But her great work lies in her
efforts to enable and make easier the
lives of her sisters.  When asked her
opinion of the plan presented here 
last year by John Temple Graves
--that of alloting one of the southwestern
states or territories to the colored
race, and depriving them of suffrage
in all other states, so that they will
flock there to live, Mrs. Terrell said
vehemently that the plan was neither
practical nor just.  Mr. Graves, said
she, is a southerner, and all southerners
would do anything to get rid of 
the negroes, because they are not used
to having them on an equality with 
the whites.  And after they would
get rid of them, they would do anything
to get them back again, for the 
south cannot get along without the
negro.  The talk that foreigners could
be shipped in to do the work is absurd. 
Southerners could not get along with
foreign labor.  Besides, the idea of
forcing the negroes to go where they
do not want to go, after bringing them
here, is not just.  They will become
elevated by association with the white
race, and will in time be desirable citizens. 
Mrs. Terrell said she had never
heard Graves on his favorite plan of
dis-negroing the south, but she is opposed
firmly to any such a plan. 

Mrs. Terrell's subject this evening
will be "Harriet Beecher Stowe."  At
least 2500 people listened to her lecture
on Tuesday afternoon, in spite of
the great heat.

NEGRO IDEALS
AT CHEYNEY SCHOOL

Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Points to
Higher Goal of All.

Display of Handicraft Adds to Interest
of Day for Visitors Who Look
and Admire.

The commencement exercises of the
Cheyney Training School for Teachers
took place yesterday afternoon at
Cheyney. Nineteen received diplomas.
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, 
D.C., a distinguished speaker
of international reputation, delivered
the commencement address, Mrs. Terrell 
spoke on " Taking Things for
Granted," and her message was very
 interesting to the audience. She gave
cases of individuals and nations who
have overcome untold difficulties because 
they have refused to take things
for granted. Misunderstandings which
separate nations and races and which
lead to bitter strife grow out of taking
certain superiorities for granted, according 
to Mrs. Terrell. The Cheyney
School was given as an example of 
not taking things for granted. The 
progress of the colored people in the
last 60 years has been wonderful. 
Mrs. Terrell pointed out that there are
2,000,000 of the race studying in the
schools of this country, including Yale, 
Harvard and other higher institutions.
The race is also producing novelists,
poets and painters of reputation, the
speaker ending by pointing out that 
although the colored people have accomplished
much, they are leagues
and leagues away from their goal and
must strive with their hearts, minds
and bodies to accomplish more. 
Exceptionally fine exhibits in dress-making, 
millinery, art needlework,
cookery, design, illustration, leather
work, bookbinding and drawing attracted
the visitors throughout the
day.  Miss Laura Wheeler, who directs
the work in drawing, had an exhibition
of her portraits.  Miss Wheeler
has gained quite a reputation in
this country and abroad by her work 
in portrait painting.  At the training
school there was a fine exhibition of
project work in geography, history,
nature study and health education. 
The alumni was represented by
Thelma Thompson, who is teaching at
Sharon Hill, and by Mildred Burris
who is teaching in North Carolina 
Paul Jones and Lolla Pratt of the
Senior Class made five-minute
speeches on the Cheyney Ideal. 
James G. Biddle, of Wallingford,
President of the Board of Trustees, 
presented the prizes and diplomas 
Alger Crawford, of the Junior Class,
won the scholarship prize in the normal
department, and Bertha Doreen
Jolly, of the second year High School
Class, won the scholarship prize i n
the High School department.  The
Cheyney song, composed by Leslie
Pinckney Hill, the Principal, was sung
at the close of the exercises.  Diplomas
were awarded to the following
students who represent Pennsylvania
and several other States: 
Mary Elizabeth Briscoe, Wilmere
Magdalene Mayo, Elizabeth DeSilver
Purnell, Roberta Lucille Smalls, Beatrice
Elizabeth Taylor, Christine Beatrice
Tharp, Priscilla Adella Williams, 
Anna Louise Gidney, Paul Wesley
Jones, Eunice Hiawatha Little, Lolla
Belle Pratt, Lettie M. Herculia Thomas,
Laura Olivet Pearle Thompson,
Frances Ellen Cloud, Clarice Jeanette
Fuller, Ella Cornelia Donnell, Clara
Frances Smith, Elnora Horton Williams, 
Theodore Roosevelt Brown. 

Mrs. Mary C. Terrell
Addresses Rally of
Women in Camden
[*Phila. Independent*] 
Several hundred braved the inclement
weather to hear Mary
Church Terrell, of New York, director
of Colored Women's Activities,
Eastern Bureau Republican National
Committee, at the Pride of
Camden Elks' Home, in Camden,
Monday night.  The meeting was 
held under the auspices of the Associated
Republican Colored Women's
Clubs of Camden. 
Mrs. Wilda R. Townsend, leader
of the Camden organization, said
that the Colored Republican
Women of Camden are solidly behind
the Republican ticket, and
that Mrs. Terrell's presence Monday
night was merely an advance celebration
of a November 8 victory. 
Every right and every privilege
which the Negro possesses today
have been bestowed upon him by
the Republican party," said Mrs. 
Terrell. 

[*Afro  Sept. 10*]
Mrs. Terrell in Chicago
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell
is visiting in Chicago
as the house guest of her
daughter, Mrs. Leon Tancil,
of that city.  Speculation
is rife as to 
whether Mrs. Terrell will
take an active part in 
the national campaign this
year as she has frequently
done. 
Mrs. Terrell 

EDUCATED COLORED WOMEN 

MRS. TERRELL TELLS OF THE
WORK THEY ARE DOING.

She Herself Was Graduated at Oberlin
and Was Described by the Late
Senator Dolliver as "One of the
Most Eloquent Women in America"
--Crusade of Discrimination. 

The first of a series of four Tuesday conferences 
was held by the Charity Organization
Society to-day at No. 105 East
Twenty-second Street to consider "educational
demands for practical training in
trades and mechanical work." 
Among the speakers was Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell, who was the first colored
woman to serve on the board of trustees
of the public schools in Washington, D. C. 
She was graduated from Oberlin College 
and afterward studies abroad.  Mrs. Terrell,
who was referred to by the late Senator
Dolliver as "one of the most eloquent
women in America," chose for her subject
at to-day's meeting, "Education Marks the
Progress of the Colored Woman of To-day." 
She said in part: 
"If any one should ask me what special
phase of the colored American's development
makes me most hopeful of his ultimate
triumph over present obstacle, I
should answer unhesitatingly it is the magnificent
work the women are doing to regenerate
and elevate the race.  To use a
thought advanced by the illustrious Frederick
Douglass, if judged by the depths
from which they have come, rather than
by the heights to which those blessed with
centuries of opportunity have attained, colored
women need not hang their heads in
shame. 
"So great has been the colored woman's
thirst for knowledge and so herculean
have been her efforts to secure it that
there are to-day hundreds of colored women
who have graduated from good institutions
of learning, and some have taken
degrees from the best universities in the
land. 
"In public work of all kinds they have
engaged for the last thirty years, and they
have become a great power for good. Kindergartens
and day-nurseries have been
established by some of their organizations.
Splendid service has been rendered by
their city and State federations, schools
have been visited, parents and teachers
urged to cooperate with each other, rescue
and reform work has been done by them,
public institutions have been investigated,
and garments cut, made, and distributed
to the poor.  "The work of bringing the
light of knowledge and the gospel of cleanliness
to women living on the plantations
in the South has been conducted by colored
women themselves with signal success,
and against the one-room cabin they
have inaugurated a vigorous campaign. 

TO OFFSET PREJUDICE. 

"The attention of colored women is being
called to the alarming rapidity with which
the race is losing ground in the world of
labor, a fact which is patent to all who
read and observe the signs of the times. 
When those who formerly employed colored
people, but who refuse to do so now
are asked why they have established what
is equivalent to a boycott against them,
they invariably reply that colored people
nowadays are neither reliable nor skilled.
While there may be occasional truth
in the charge of unreliability and
lack of skill, in the majority of
cases negroes are unable to secure
employment because of the cruel
prejudice against them in the United
States.  To stem this tide of popular disfavor
is the desire of every colored woman
who has the interests of her race at heart. 
To their own youth they are constantly
preaching the dignity of labor and are
urging them to make themselves proficient
in whatever work they engage.  They
are also appealing to the large-hearted, 
broadminded sisters of the dominant race,
and are asking them to do everything in
their power to secure for colored boys and
girls the same opportunity of earning a
living and of attaining the full stature
of manhood and womanhood which they desire
for their own. 
"Against lynching, the convict lease system,  
the Jim Crow cars, and all other
barbarities which degrade and dishearten 
their race, they intend to agitate with
such force of logic and intensity of soul
that those who handicap and oppress them
will either be converted to righteousness
and justice or be ashamed, openly and
flagrantly, to violate both the fundamental
principles upon which this government was
founded and the golden rule."

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