LIFTING
Mary Church Terrell was born on September 23, 1863. She was an early civil rights activist and suffragist. Among the first Black women to earn a college degree, she spoke to audiences all over the world (in multiple languages) about the injustices facing Black American women. Her motto was “LIFTING AS WE CLIMB.”
“And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long. With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope.”