1863: Mary Church Terrell - educator, political activist, and first president of the National Association of Colored Women - was born in Memphis, Tennessee. An 1884 graduate of Oberlin College, America's first college to admit women and amongst the first to admit students of all races, Terrell was one of the first American women of African descent to graduate from college. She earned her master's degree from Oberlin in 1888. Terrell began her career as a teacher. In 1895, she was the first African-American woman to serve on the Washington, D.C. school board in which she served until 1905 and again from 1906 to 1911. (Source: Library of Congress)