Her-story

Mary Church Terrell

_{Mary Church Terrell. Three Quarter length portrait. Facing forward. Source.}

"A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex."

-Mary Church Terrell