Review:Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital by Joan Quigley

Title: Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital
Author: Joan Quigley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: February 1, 2016

Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital by Joan Quigley

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I so enjoy reading and learning about people who advocate for positive change, and Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital by Joan Quigley is in that category. Not a well known name in the list of civil rights pioneers, she took a bold step, five years before Rosa Parks, when she sought to be served in an eating establishment not far from the White House.

Her story is not one I heard about in law school, and her name was not at all familiar until I read this book. I am pleased her efforts and accomplishments have not been allowed to remain in obscure archives, and we can now read her biography and family history. I do find it ironic, however, that the very place where our nation's laws were being proposed and debated is the very place where segregation remained so entrenched.

I received an advance reader's copy (ARC) from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.



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