AMERICASTHE OOLORED iMRS M C TERRELL HONORED

Colored Citizens of the District ofColumbia Testify Their Appre-

ciation of Her Worth

Washingtons Elite Turn Out in LargeNumbers to Hear the Story of HerTrip to Berlin Feastof Reason and a Flow f Soul

If Mrs Mary Church Terrell hadany doubt as to the high esteem inwhich she is held by the citizens ofWashington that doubt removedlast Wednesday evening at the reception tendered her at the Metropoli-

tan A M E Ohurch When it waslearned that she would soon return tothe city from her trip abroad as delegate to the International Congress ofWomen which met recently in BerlinGermany a movement was started by100 of the leading colored citizens ofthe District to tender her a grandpublic reception to show in a publicway their high and warm apprecia-tion of the great honor she had doneherself and the race while abroadThe associated press and the magazines and newspapers have alreadytold the story of her triumph abroadand it is only left to the citizens of

her home city to acknowledge thesame in a public way Metropolitan AM E Church which has the largestseating capacity of any church in theDistrict of Columbia was comfortab-ly filled with representative men andwomen of the race who had come outto hear the story of her triumph andto make her return home welcomeThe church was beautifully decorated-

an orchestra was secured and a mostinteresting program was rendered Itwas as follows

Master of ceremonies Dr J R Wilder invocation Rev Sterling NBrown Introductory remarks Dr JR Wilder addresses of welcome HonJohn C Dancy and Miss Maria LJordan Response Mrs Mary ChurchTerrell Benediction Rev O J W

Scott music for the occasion was furnished by the Invincible orchestra-

Dr Wilder in n few wellchosenwords gave the reasons for the occa-

sion of the committee of one hundred-in tendering the ovation to Mrs Terrell He spoke eloquently of the hard-

ships and the impedimenta and of theembarrassments that are met with bythe colored citizens of this country onaccount of race prejudice and spokeinterestingly of the progress the racehas made with these difficulties to com-

pete with He felt that since MrsTerrell had done so much in a strangeland to bring credit to herself andthe ten millions of colored people inthis country that it was fitting indeedthat such a public testimonial shouldbe given her

Hon John C Dancy Recorder of

Deeds for the District of Columbiawas at his best and in a most grandeloquent way told what the race hadwon through Mrs TerrelFs trip andtriumph abroad His address wasfrequently cheered and punctuatedwith applause To Miss Maria Jordanwas assigned the duty of speaking forthe women and she performed herpart nobly and well Briefly she

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her long acquaintance and her inces-sant friendship and admiration for thehost of the evening

MRS TERRELLS ADDRESS

Mrs Terrell was then escorted tothe front of the rostrum by Dr J RWilder but it was a few minutes be-fore she could speak so thunderous andenthusiastic was the applause givenher Her response beggars description It was only such a speech asMary Church Terrell could deliverand for twenty minutes she charmedthe audience with a pen picture of hertrip abroad She spoke without notesand had perfect command of herselfThe Washington Post speaking of heraddress said

Mrs Terrell said that it was onlybecause she felt that she represented-not only the AfroAmericanbut the entire race that she decided inthe face of advice to the contrary toattempt to address that great body ofintelligent and progressive women inGerman and again in French

Mrs Terrel is a Washingtonian byadoption and for several years was amember of the board of educa-tion She is a graduate of OberlinCollege holding two degrees A Banti A M and has had the added advantage of thorough study in ParisBerlin and Florence

She was touched last night by theheartiness of the reception tenderedher

When she stepped forward she waswarmly greeted and it was several mo-

ments before she could proceed Shebegan by giving credit to her parents

educating her and to her husbandfor enabling her to use her talents Inbehalf of the women of her race j

Coming to the incidents of the con-

vention in Berlin she paid high tribute to the Germans stating that shedoubted that the women of any othernation in the world cOUld arrange ameeting which would surpass thatheld in Berlin She was the only rep-

resentative of the African race at theCongress and she declared that thecourtesy accorded her was equal tothat extended to any other delegatethere She was entertained at thehome of one of the prominent familiesof Berlin Her hostess gave her nota room but a suite with maid toattend to her wants She spoke of thecourtesy of the Count von Buelow Am-

bassador Charlemagne Tower PrincessMaria Rohan and other notables Shepraised particularly the Countess ofWarwick who was to have addressedthe Congress but was unable to at-

tend The countess left her countryseat and went to London to receiveMrs Terrell on her return from Berlin Mrs Terrell spoke at severalplaces in London before sailing for theUnited Stats

She said that there was absolutely-no prejudice against the colored peo-

ple in France or Germany In Eng-land she said there was a slight antip-athy to the dark races but no ob-

stacles were thrown in the way ofthose who had high attainments Shedeclared that Europeans could not un-

derstand the prejudice and the oppres-

sion to which the colored race is sub-

jected in She declared thatthey marvelled at the rapid progressmade since freed from slavery

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life to enlightning the people acrossthe ocean on the progress of the Negrorace No people need ever despairshe said when their women are will-ing and active in trying to uplift thorace

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