Efforts in Integration
Mary Church Terrell worked with Fredrick Douglass on civil rights campaigns. She was active in many organizations throughout her life. At the beginning of her fight for African American rights she was part of the newly formed National Association of Colored Women (NACW), and she became the first president of the association. This association helped orphans, and established daycares and kindergartens. She was appointed to the District of Columbia Board of Education through 1895 to 1906. Mary was the first colored woman in the United States to have such a high position. She was a member of the National American Suffrage Association. Her primary concern was that the organization fight for the right for black women to vote. She was part of the African-American Women's Club Movement and this club was to help people know about the struggles that black women faced for equality. She was the first women to be elected to the Bethel Literary and Historical Society, the prominent Washington
