The famous Black educator, activist and writer Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) gave powerful voice to the multiple challenges facing Black women in the suffrage movement. Born to a wealthy Black family in Memphis, Tennessee, Mary Church Terrell attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and taught at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio. In 1895 she was appointed to the District of Columbia’s Board of Education, becoming the first black woman to serve on the school board of a major American city. Terrell, in her address to the National Woman Suffrage Association Convention in 1890, proclaimed: “a white woman has only one handicap to overcome—a great one, true, her sex; a colored woman faces two—her sex and her race. A colored man has only one—that of race.