Celebrate International Women’s Day!
Sponsored by the African American Studies & Research Center, the Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion, and the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program MARY CHURCH TERRELL,
BLACK WOMEN, AND THE RISE OF
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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MARCH 10, 2016 | 3-4:30 PM | BLACK CULTURAL CENTER
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LECTURE BY DR. ALISON PARKER
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, SUNY
Please join Dr. Parker as she talks about Mary Church Terrell: suffragist, founding member of the
NAACP, and the first president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.
Alison M. Parker is a professor of history at the College at Brockport, State University of New York (SUNY). She
majored in art history and history at the University of California, Berkeley and earned a Ph.D. from the Johns
Hopkins University. Parker teaches about the intersections of gender, race, disability, citizenship and the law in
U.S. history. On her campus, she has been helping to build a coalition of students, faculty, and staff who are
promoting a wide-ranging anti-racism agenda.
Photo: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., neg. no. L C USZ 62 54724