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By 1906 Mary Church Terrell of Washington, D.C., had become one of the most prominent African American women in the nation.  Ten years earlier she was the first president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and from 1895 to 1901 she was a member of the board of trustees of the District of Columbia public school system.  On October 10, 1906 she delivered a speech before the United Women’s Club of Washington, D.C.  That speech appears below. Washington, D.C., has been called The Colored Mans Paradise. Whether this sobriquet was given to the national capital in bitter irony by a m…