Letters from and to Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), a noted African American educator, author, and early civil rights proponent, regarding her request to the White House to be appointed head of a "colored women's section" in either the Women's Bureau or the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor during President Coolidge's administration. Mrs. Terrell was urged to apply for a job by taking the civil service examination rather than by seeking a political appointment. The case file contains correspondence from Secretary of Labor James Davis, Women's Bureau director Mary Anderson, Children's Bureau director Grace Abbott, and C. Bascom Slemp, one of President Coolidge's private secretaries.
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