Lucy Thurman

In 1866, she left home at 17 when she met Frederick Douglass and Dr. William Wells Brown in Rochester, New York.

[5] In 1898, she cofounded the Michigan Association of Colored Women's Clubs with friend Mary Eleanora McCoy and served as its first president.

Under her leadership, she helped to establish a Temperance Department, passed resolutions and actively worked in support of anti-lynching campaigns, juvenile courts, and the National Association for the Protection of Colored Women and Girls.

[1] The Lucy Thurman Young Women's Christian Association Building in Detroit is named for her and opened in 1933.

The exhibit featured a dozen prominent Black women from the state of Michigan, including the Honorable Cora M. Brown, Ethelene Jones Crockett, M.D., and musician Madame Emma Azalia Hackley.