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"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"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table Of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Mollie Church -- Chapter 2: Boiling Her Peas -- Chapter 3: Travels And Trials -- Chapter 4: Brothers, Sisters, And Daughters -- Chapter 5: Lunch In The Nation's Capital -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- About The Author/About The Illustrator -- Back Cover

On to the battlefield -- The greatest woman that we have -- They come standing erect -- An example for all the world -- The radicalization of Mary Church Terrell -- Segregation will go -- This thing can be licked -- A bigger step is in order -- Eat anywhere -- Epilogue until full and final victory

Mary Church Terrell and Ida B. Wells-Barnett were outstanding black women reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article describes their contributions to the fight for human rights by reframing data from secondary sources and analyzing some of the women's original works.

"In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson's Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they could not eat in his establishment, because they were 'colored.' Terrell, a former suffragette and one of the country's first college-educated African American women, took the matter to court. Three years later, the Supreme Court vindicated her outrage: District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc. was decided in June 1953, invalidating the segregation of restaurants and cafes in the nation's capital. In Just Another Southern Town, Joan Quigley recounts an untold chapter of the civil rights movement: an epic battle to topple segregation in Washington, the symbolic home of American democracy. At the book's heart is the formidable Mary Church Terrell and the test case she mounts seeking to enforce Reconstruction-era laws prohibiting segregation in D.C. restaurants. Through the prism of Terrell's story, Quigley reassesses Washington's relationship to civil rights history, bringing to life a pivotal fight for equality that erupted five years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus and a decade before the student sit-in movement rocked segregated lunch counters across the South. At a time when most civil rights scholarship begins with Brown v. Board of Education, Just Another Southern Town unearths the story of the nation's capital as an early flashpoint on race. A rich portrait of American politics and society in the mid-20th century, it interweaves Terrell's narrative with the courtroom drama of the case and the varied personalities of the justices who ultimately voted unanimously to prohibit segregated restaurants. Resonating with gestures of courage and indignation that radiate from the capital's streets and sidewalks to its marble-clad seats of power, this work restores Mary Church Terrell and the case that launched a crusade to their rightful place in the pantheon of civil rights history"--Publisher's description.

Intro -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. MY PARENTS -- 2. EARLY CHILDHOOD -- 3. I AM SENT NORTH TO SCHOOL -- 4. MY PARENTS SEND ME TO OBERLIN, OHIO -- 5. I ENTER OBERLIN COLLEGE -- 6. ACTIVITIES DURING COLLEGE COURSE -- 7. I GO TO MEMPHIS, TEACH IN WILBERFORCE AND WASHINGTON AND GO ABROAD -- 8. I STUDY IN GERMANY -- 9. IN EUROPE WITH MOTHER AND BROTHER -- 10. I LEAVE BERLIN AND GO TO FLORENCE -- 11. I RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES -- 12. WITH FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND PAUL DUNBAR AT THE WORLD'S FAIR -- 13. BUYING A HOME UNDER DIFFICULTIES -- 14. LEARNING TO COOK AND ENTERTAINING GUESTS -- 15. THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL APPOINT ME A MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD -- 16. THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION INVITES ME TO SPEAK -- 17. CLUB WORK -- 18. ON THE LECTURE PLATFORM -- 19. NOTABLE LECTURE ENGAGEMENTS -- 20. PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA, DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND TUSKEGEE -- 21. IN BERLIN, GERMANY -- 22. DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE I MET ABROAD -- 23. MY EFFORTS TO SUCCEED AS A WRITER -- 24. MY CHILDREN AND I -- 25. MY EXPERIENCE AS A CLERK IN A GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT -- 26. EFFORTS IN SENATE TO PREVENT JUDGE TERRELL'S CONFIRMATION -- 27. THE SECRETARY OF WAR SUSPENDS ORDER DISMISSING COLORED SOLDIERS AT MY REQUEST -- 28. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTENARY AND MY SALLY INTO SPIRITUALISM -- 29. TRYING TO GET A COLORED GIRL INTO AN ACADEMY IN THE NORTH -- 30. TRAVELING UNDER DIFFICULTIES -- 31. POLITICAL ACTIVITIES-CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT -- 32. WORK IN WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE -- 33. DELEGATE TO THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS -- 34. MEETING OLD FRIENDS AND NEW-PLUS A DOSE OF RACE PREJUDICE ADMINISTERED BY MY COUNTRYMEN -- 35. A WEEK-END VISIT WITH MR.AND MRS. H. G. WELLS-I MEET OTHER DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE IN ENGLAND.

Introduction /Roger W. Nutt --From heartbreak to hope : how the Church can prevent sexual abuse and restore the laity's trust without damaging the Chair of St. Peter /H. James Towey --Marian faith in a time of crisis /Michele M. Schumacher --"Do whatever He tells you" : Marian faith and unity of life /Janice Chik Breidenbach --Human sexuality : the battle for the human soul /Maria Fedoryka --The healing crisis /Kathryn Clarke --Church purification the Marian way /Mark Miravalle.

Beyond Respectability" charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli Murray, and Toni Cade Bambara. Cooper delves into the processes that transformed these women and others into racial leadership figures, including long-overdue discussions of their theoretical output and personal experiences. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. It also confronted entrenched ideas of how - and who - produced racial knowledge

"Few areas of early modern English history have roused such passions and interpretations as the rule of Mary Tudor and her efforts to return the country to Catholicism following the reigns of her father and brother. In this book, Dr Wizeman explores Catholic theology and spirituality according to the religious literature printed during the reign of Mary Tudor (1553-1558). As part of the strategy to renew Catholic religion in England after the reformations under Henry VIII and Edward VI, Marian theologians, authors and editors produced numerous works of catechesis, religious polemic, devotion and sermons. These writings demonstrate that the Catholicism of Marian England was not a mere insular reaction to the preceding decades of religious change, nor a via media polity which eschewed important elements of traditional religion while embracing tenets of the Reformation. Rather the theology and spirituality of Mary Tudor's church, as well as many of its strategies for religious renewal, was intimately connected to - and in fact anticipated or paralleled - the theology, spirituality and strategies for reform embraced by Counter-Reformation Catholicism, especially after the promulgation of the decrees of the Council of Trent (1545-1563). After considering the recent historiography of Mary Tudor's reign, the book contextualises these writings through a brief history of the Marian church and a discussion of the authors and dedicatees. It then presents an analysis of the Marian writers' and theologians' views on revelation, christology, soteriology, ecclesiology, sacramental theology, piety and eschatology. Finally, the study compares the Catholic belief asserted in these works to that found in texts by English theologians printed before 1553, especially John Fisher, and by contemporary theologians in Europe, particularly Bartolom Carranza, as well as the Tridentine catechism, and the decrees and official texts of the English Reformation."--Provided by publisher.