champions of equality: Unceasing militant mary church terrell
Saturday, May 10th
1 PM
In-person at Paulsdale and livestreamed
Join the Alice Paul Center for a special in-person Champions of Equality. Dr. Alison Parker will be presenting on her book Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell.
Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a career bridging the late nineteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1950s. The first president of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the NAACP, Terrell collaborated closely with the likes of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Unceasing Militant is the first full-length biography of Terrell, bringing her vibrant voice and personality to life. Though most accounts of Terrell focus almost exclusively on her public activism, Alison M. Parker also looks at the often turbulent, unexplored moments in her life to provide a more complete account of a woman dedicated to changing the culture and institutions that perpetuated inequality throughout the United States.
This conversation will also be livestreamed on APC’s social media.
Alison M. Parker is Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. She has research and teaching interests in U.S. women’s and gender history, African American history, and legal history. She majored in art history and history at the University of California, Berkeley and earned a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University. In 2017-2018, Parker was an Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University. Among other books, Parker is author of Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell. As founder of the University of Delaware’s Anti-Racism Initiative, Parker is committed to sustaining a coalition of students, faculty, staff, and community members who are promoting a wide-ranging anti-racism agenda.