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Author Fradin, Dennis B.

Title Fight on! : Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration / Dennis Brindell Fradin & Judith Bloom Fradin.

Publication Info. New York : Clarion Books, [2003]
©2003
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E185.97.T47 F73 2003    Available  ---
Description ix, 181 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Mary Church Terrell's family tree -- Who was Mary Church Terrell? -- A bowl of soup -- Bob Church's daughter -- Hold high the banner of my race -- I am a colored girl -- The welfare of my race -- Mr. Terrell goes to church -- Lifting as we climb -- I have done so little -- A meddler -- I intend never to grow old -- Your indomitable spirit -- Fight on -- Your long and valiant struggle -- Those who will follow after you.
Summary Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized of pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.
Contents Mary Church Terrell's family tree -- Who was Mary Church Terrell? -- A bowl of soup -- Bob Church's daughter -- "Hold high the banner of my race" -- "I am a colored girl" -- "The welfare of my race" -- Mr. Terrell "goes to Church" -- "Lifting as we climb" -- "I have done so little" -- A "meddler" -- "I intend never to grow old" -- "Your indomitable spirit" -- "Fight on" -- "Your long and valiant struggle" -- Afterword: "Those who will follow after you."
Subject Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.
Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.
African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
African American women civil rights workers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights workers.
United States.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
History.
African Americans -- Segregation -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Segregation.
Washington (D.C.)
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Washington (D.C.) -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Demonstration (Washington, D.C. : 1971)
Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
Genre/Form Juvenile materials.
Biographies.
Added Author Fradin, Judith Bloom.
ISBN 0618133496

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