#OnThisDay in #history - in 1954, Mary Eliza Terrell (nee Church) died in Maryland, #USA .
Born in 1863 in Tennessee, her parents were both freed but recently enslaved people.
She was one of the first Black American women to earn a bachelor's degree, later becoming a teacher.
In 1892, she helped found the Colored Women's League in DC, and joined the fight for women's suffrage and civil rights (she was also a founding member of the NAACP). #OTD#histodons#civilrights#activist@histodons
