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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Mary Church Terrell papers, 1851-1962 (bulk 1886-1954)</title>
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    <namePart>Terrell, Mary Church</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1863-1954</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, clippings, printed material, and other papers focusing primarily on Terrell's career as an advocate of women's rights and equal treatment for African Americans.  Subjects include women's suffrage; Equal Rights Amendment; education and suffrage for African Americans; desegregation in the District of Columbia; lynching and peonage conditions in the South; progressivism; the campaigns of Presidents Calvin Coolidge, Warren G. Harding, and Herbert Hoover; the Illinois senatorial campaign of Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms; and family affairs.  Documents her work with the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws, International Purity Conference, National American Woman Suffrage Association, National Association of Colored Women, National Purity Conference, National Woman's Party, War Camp Community Service, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Young Women's Christian Association.  Includes a manuscript of Terrell's autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World (1940).</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Jane Addams, Mary McLeod Bethune, Benjamin Griffith Brawley, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Carrie Chapman Catt, Oscar De Priest, W.E.B. DuBois, Christian A. Fleetwood, Francis Jackson Garrison, W.C. Handy, Ida Husted Harper, Addie W. Hunton, Maude White Katz, Eugene Meyer, William L. Patterson, A. Philip Randolph, Jeannette Rankin, Haile Selassie I, Annie Stein, Anson Phelps Stokes, William Monroe Trotter, Oswald Garrison Villard, Booker T. Washington, Margaret James Murray Washington, H.G. Wells, and Carter Godwin Woodson.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 16,976.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.</note>
  <note>Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>African American civil rights leader, lecturer, and educator.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English, with French and German.</note>
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      <namePart>Addams, Jane</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1935</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bethune, Mary McLeod</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1955</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brawley, Benjamin Griffith</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1939</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Burroughs, Nannie Helen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1961</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Catt, Carrie Chapman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1859-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Coolidge, Calvin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1933</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>De Priest, Oscar</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1951</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1963</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fleetwood, Christian A. (Christian Abraham)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1840-1914</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garrison, Francis Jackson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1848-1916</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">I, Emperor of Ethiopia</namePart>
      <namePart>Haile Selassie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1975</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Handy, W. C. (William Christopher)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1958</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1923</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harper, Ida Husted</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1851-1931</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoover, Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1964</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hunton, Addie W</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Katz, Maude White</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Meyer, Eugene</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1959</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Patterson, William L. (William Lorenzo)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1979</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rankin, Jeannette</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1973</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Simms, Ruth Hanna McCormick</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1944</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stein, Annie</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stokes, Anson Phelps</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1958</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Trotter, William Monroe</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1934</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Villard, Oswald Garrison</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1949</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Washington, Booker T</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1915</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Washington, Margaret James Murray</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861?-1925</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1946</namePart>
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      <namePart>Woodson, Carter Godwin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1950</namePart>
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      <namePart>War Camp Community Service (U.S.)</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Young Women's Christian Association.</namePart>
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      <namePart>International Purity Conference.</namePart>
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      <namePart>National Purity Conference.</namePart>
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    <topic>Civil rights</topic>
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    <topic>Education</topic>
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    <topic>Societies, etc</topic>
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    <topic>Constitutional amendments</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Elections</topic>
    <geographic>Illinois</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
    <temporal>1920</temporal>
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    <topic>Societies and clubs</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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