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Author: Alison Parker

​Alison M. Parker is history department chair at the University of Delaware. She has research and teaching interests at the intersections of gender, race, disability, citizenship and the law in U.S. history. Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell is now available (University of North Carolina Press, John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture, 2020). Parker is also the author of two historical monographs, Articulating Rights: Nineteenth-Century American Women on Race, Reform, and the State (2010) and Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933 (1997). She has also co-edited three anthologies and authored numerous articles and book chapters.
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Mary Church Terrell, the Forgotten “Face of the African American Women’s Suffrage Activism"

Mary Church Terrell, the Forgotten “Face of African American Women’s Suffrage Activism”

Alison Parker

Mary Church Terrell, a Black civil rights activist, was left out of history. In her new book, Alison Parker writes of Terrell’s lifelong militancy. In her Aug. 19 nomination acceptance speech, Vice President Kamala Harris stated: “Women like Mary Church Terrell and Mary McCleod Bethune. Fannie Lou Hamer and Diane Nash. Constance Baker Motley and […]

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