Colored Woman in a White World

In this autobiography, originally published in 1940, Terrell describes the important events and people in her life.

List of contents

Foreword, Debra Newman Ham
Introduction

My Parents

Early Childhood

I am Sent North to School

My Parents Send Me to Oberlin, Ohio

I Enter Oberlin College

Activities During College Course

I Go to Memphis, Teach Wilberforce and Washington and Go Abroad

I Study in Germany

In Europe with Mother and Brother

I Leave Berlin and Go to Florence

I Return to the United States

With Frederick Douglass and Paul Dunbar at the World's Fair

Buying a Home Under Difficulties

Learning to Cook and Entertaining Guests

The Commissioners of the National Capital Appoint Me a Member of the School Board

The National American Woman Suffrage Association Invites Me to Speak

Club Work

On the Lecture Platform

Notable Lecture Engagements

Prince Henry of Prussia, Dr. Brooker T. Washington

In Berlin, Germany

Distinguished People I Met Abroad

My Efforts to Succeed as a Writer

My Children and I

My Experience as a Clerk in a Government Department

Efforts in Senate to Prevent Judge Terrell's Confirmation

The Secretary of War Suspends Order Dismissing Colored Soldiers at My Request

Harriet Beecher Stowe Centenary and My Sally into Spiritualism

Trying to Get a Colored Girl into an Academy in the North

Traveling Under Difficulties

Political Activities-Charged with Disorderly Conduct

Work in War Camp Community Service

Delegate to the International Peace Congress

Meeting Old Friends and New-Plus a Dose of Race Prejudice Administered by My Countrymen

A Week-end Visit with Mr. and Mrs. H. G.Wells-I Meet Other Distinguished People in England

Employed by Ruth Hanna McCormick to Help in Her Campaign for the United States Senate. Abroad with My Daughter

A Few Cases of Friction

Crossing the Color Line

The Colored Man's Paradise

Social Activities

I Address the International Assembly of the World Fellowship of Faiths in London and Meet Haile Selassie

Carrying On

Index

About the author

Debra Newman Ham, former Archivist at NARA and the editor of the original Black History Guide. Ham is currently a professor of history at Morgan State University.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Church Terrell
• Assisted by: Ham Debra Newman (Introduction)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781538145975
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4597-5
• No. of pages: 488
• Series: Classics in Black Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Autobiography: general, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Civil rights & citizenship, Gender studies: women and girls, Human rights, civil rights, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to African American / Black American people