Phyllis Terrell

The National Association of Colored Women, or NAWC, was founded in 1896 by black reformers like Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Harriet Tubman.

[1][3]Terrell, along with her mother, picketed the White House during the National Woman's Party demonstrations that called on President Woodrow Wilson to support a women's suffrage amendment.

As Black women, Terrell and her mother were excluded from the vote when the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed.

At that time, Terrell listened to her mother give a speech commending the hospitable people they met on their trip and the glories of Treasure Island.

In this role, she assisted historians and scholars regarding the plight of African Americans and worked closely with National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.

In 1962, Phyllis Terrell succeeded in getting the Frederick Douglass Home in Washington, D.C., declared a National Shrine by an Act of Congress.