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Mary Church Terrell & the Black "Mammy" Statue

Mary Church Terrell & the Black "Mammy" Statue

Lectures in History

May 23, 20211h 3m

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Show Notes

University of Delaware professor Alison Parker teaches a class about activist Mary Church Terrell's 1923 fight against the United Daughters of the Confederacy's attempt to erect a black "Mammy" statue in Washington, D.C. She describes how Terrell, a civil rights activist and suffragist, organized opposition and successfully prevented this "Lost Cause" statue from being built. 

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