Mary Church Terrell papers, 1851-1962

Collection Summary

Title	Mary Church Terrell papers, 1851-1962
Inclusive Dates	1851-1962
Bulk Dates	1886-1954
ID No.	MSS42549
Creator	Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954
Extent	13,000 items
Extent	51 containers plus 1 oversize
Extent	22.5 linear feet
Extent	34 microfilm reels
Language	Collection material in English, with French and German
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009311
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm76042549
Summary	African-American civil rights leader, lecturer, and educator. Correspondence, diaries, printed material, clippings, speeches and writings, and other papers focusing primarily on Terrell's career as an advocate of women's rights and equal treatment for African Americans.
Online Content	The papers of Mary Church Terrell are available on the Library of Congress website at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000076. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition as available. A transcription dataset from the Mary Church Terrell Papers is available online at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2021387726.