Home of Robert and Mary Church Terrell

This house is part of the Save Americas Treasures Project. It was officially pronounced an individual landmark property and was nominated as a National Register of Historic places in 1975. The house of Mary Church Terrell is being preserved and is recognized as a historical site. In this house lived survivor of the Civil War Mary Church Terrell, an activist for the woman suffrage movement and equal rights, a teacher, founding member of the NAACP, writer and the first African American woman in the United States to be appointed local school board. Her husband was the 3rd black graduate of Harvard University, 1st to graduate cum laude and first black Municipal Judge for the District of Columbia. This small house holds a history of profound African Americans who made a difference in the DC community and African American history.  For more information visit the Robert and Mary Church Terrell House & LeDroit Park Museum and Cultural Center at http://www.marychurchterrellhouse.org/.