EXCEPTIONAL RACE 

EXCEPTIONAL COLOR

February  4, 2012

Quote for Today - Fourth Day of Black History Month

"Please stop using the word 'Negro' .... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven varieties of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit.  Therefore, we are really colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us."

Mary Church Terrell [1863-1954], letter to the editor, Washington Post, May 14, 1949

In Wikipedia she is described as "one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree."  She was quite a woman. Check out her biography in Wikipedia.