Manuscript/Mixed Material Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of 5
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Image 1 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Speeches Writings File Miscellaneous fragments Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 2 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … COMPOSITIONS Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 3 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Tho reasonable men do not accuse cer official native monarchist parties of direct complicity in the murder the moral guilt and responsibility for the crime are everywhere attached to the national party…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 4 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Joseph Hergesheimer wrote for 14 yrs urged on by a dogged belief in himself without having a single manuscript accepted Dorothy Speare Dancers in the Dark The Practical Side of Writing by…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 5 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Kimono by John Paris Love enters the soul thru the nostrils If you doubt me observe the animals BaKaFoolobisash O hayou gazaimas Respectfully early sensi master or teacher Douio Si dis me…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 6 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Up Stream Continued Man can make neither his gifts nor his character count except thru those methods and institutions which society has organized From these I had hitherto been in many subtle…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 7 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … 910 of those young Americans were undersexed Is it not Democracy to set the individual free to make room in the world for all types of personality to make life comradly vivid…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 8 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Up Stream â Ludwig Lewisohn â Among all the villagers there was a moderate amount of hard working and a good deal of sexual irregularity especial ly with Mulatto women â 42…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 9 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … good women are sexless Keep your hat on in a harlots houseHe wanted to take his hat off in a harlots house The insult seemed so futile and so cruel He didnt…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 10 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … If I had a son and say dismiss from your mind all the cant you hear on the subject of sex The passion of love is the central passion of life It…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 11 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … magazines more easily if you used a pseudonym Your names very Jewish His stories sent to the Atlantic Monthly were rejected Stories in Amer magazine have no contact with real life at…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 12 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … hardihood of thot I was beaten broken breadless I was a scholar and forbidden to teach an artist and forbidden to write Liberty opportunity the words had nothing friendly to my ear…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 13 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Kaga Hill in Banda Boundjous Mokoundji ruler of some kind Ngakura God Bounjoulis white men Ipeu the moon Niaou Cat_ linghas hoon vouma fly Lolo Sun Bogbo _ mat_ Ouandja Brother Friend…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 14 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … consume whatever you touch The negro question is a living one America has made it so the newspaper campaigns beyond the Rhine Romulus Coucou Paul Reboux Pierre Bouardis Visage de la Brousse…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 15 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … reduces even to the most abject state of debility Representatives of France shd sound the alarm they are responsible for the evils from which certain tracts of the negro country are suffering…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 16 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … And yet they are the offsprings of a robust and warlike tribe tough and enduring They could not be destroyed either by enemy forages nor by the perpetual internal dissensions all the…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 17 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … those hypocrisies imported by white men One only conceals an injury or shortcoming Amongst men and women only those dissemble their good points who know them to be laughable or unworthy B…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 18 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … the name spend their whole time running after women like a panther after an antelope Macoude Batouala were brothers by the same mother father not related by the usual tie when a…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 19 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … pata yes 5 francs when white men are only charged a meya ten sous may they perish with open muzzles and their feet sticking in dung _ German or French they are…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 20 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … niggers hate one another universally Men are all alike whatever color they may be I shall never tire of cursing the wickedness of white men Especially their duplicity What did they not…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 21 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Since the boundjous had settled there death was the only refuge for good poor niggers The only deliverance from slavery For their happiness could only be found over there in those distant…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 22 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … hand his usual pots and loin cloths Sallying forth in the night altho dead he could wander among the villages of the living if hungry thirsty he could make a meal quench…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 23 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … impurity had for the time to put aside all thoughts of elegance Bissibingui had a perfect frame shoulders chest thick with muscle no belly long full muscular legs Those who had known…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 24 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … My whole being desires you I belong to you You asked for me I have come To love is to be with the man one wants The tooroogous pillage the villages get…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 25 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Lolo is both man and woman Ipeu makes Lolo flee at evening but hides from him when he burns the plains All women used to want children Women fed on goat are…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 26 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … legend of Kolikongbo are one the same Hunting Their chief had a head dress of feathers his body was stained with red wood and annointed with palm oil They sang as they…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 27 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Batouala might well die he said and all the mbis with him Their exorcisms incantations were renounced also bags of sweetsmelling herbs the sorcerers medicines the customary charms Gone were the gonga…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 28 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Alone in the world masters of their destiny nothing and nobody could prevent them any longer from belonging to each other Batouala hiccoughed his nostrils pinched The sweetness of life at this…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 29 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Gauza Chapter 5 Young men girls are naked their bodies whitened with ashes and manioc flour Death strikes any who do not observe this custom They leaped to the rythm of an…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 30 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … They bent stamped right left beat the air threw up their arms c Gauga will be performed Knife in hand 2 old men covered with amulets stood before a group of young…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 31 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Impersonally she passed on to the next dancer proceeded swiftly with her work Gauga Only once in their lives do women suffer gauga Come to us men you too now are gaugas…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 32 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … School days lonely nights in Oberlin Prin Whites praise Jack Frost Mather Arnold Kindness of Oberlin teachers Who examined me Supt Moulton his daughter her early death She was Anne Kindness shown…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 33 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … was raised It was the exception and not the rule to find no N soldiers in any brigade of the army Nobody thot of their color so nobly did they perform their…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 34 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Midsummer Nights Dream Salem Poor 13 15 N excited 16 Nov 12 Genl Washington forbidden the enlistment 20 N can take the field Oct 23 instead of his master 4 Companies of…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 35 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … in which Count Pulaski was killed In the Siege of Savannah which resulted so to the it was the black St Domingo Legion 1779 which saved the army from Amer cause the…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 36 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … some others Some of the Senators from this section believe in enforcing those laws which guarantee the rights of white people and let the disfranchisement blacks in a large section of this…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 37 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … Of all the racial group in this country which needs to study harder how to use the ballot than our own group 2 Illinois was one of the first states in this…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 38 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … When M listed mentioned the American women in 100 distinct important careers open to women in 1940 she presented was Mrs Mar Terrrell formerly a member of the Bd of Education here…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 39 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … 9 free and institutes citizenship and equal rights for all who had hitherto been held in bondage It was these nevertobe altered imperishable deeds that amplified the Union and dedicated our nation…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Image 40 of Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of … What should be said about the honor honesty of prejudice ridden people who belong to an organization whose constitution strictly forbids discrimination on account of race 1 PETITION Page 17 Reprints from…
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1866-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated; Miscellaneous fragments; 4 of 5
Names
- Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1964
Created / Published
- 1866 - 1953
Headings
- - African Americans--Civil rights
- - Educators
- - Terrell family
- - Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws
- - National American Woman Suffrage Association
- - National Association of Colored Women (U.S.)
- - National Woman's Party
- - War Camp Community Service (U.S.)
- - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- - Young Women's Christian Association
- - International Purity Conference
- - National Purity Conference
- - African Americans--Education
- - African Americans--Societies, etc
- - Civil rights
- - Race relations
- - Segregation--Washington (D.C.)
- - Women--Societies and clubs
- - Women--Suffrage
- - Women's rights
- - Civil rights leaders
- - Lecturers
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953
- mss42549, box 34; reel 24
Source Collection
- Mary Church Terrell papers
Repository
- Manuscript Division
Digital Id
Online Format
- online text
- image
IIIF Presentation Manifest
Finding Aid
Part of
Format
Contributor
Dates
Location
Language
Subject
- African Americans
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Leaders
- Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws
- Education
- Educators
- International Purity Conference
- Lecturers
- Manuscripts
- National American Woman Suffrage Association
- National Association of Colored Women (U.S.)
- National Purity Conference
- National Woman's Party
- Race Relations
- Segregation
- Societies and Clubs
- Societies, Etc
- Suffrage
- Terrell Family
- War Camp Community Service (U.S.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- Women
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Women's Rights
- Young Women's Christian Association