how many of these early black feminists do you know?

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9. Some other noted black women from Oberlin College's history...

In addition to Mary Church Terrell, who was profiled in the OP...

Mary Jane Patterson (1840-94) was the first African American woman to receive a bachelor’s degree in the United States when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1862. Her parents came to Oberlin in her early youth, probably as fugitive slaves. Upon graduation, she taught in the Institute for Colored Youths for seven years in Philadelphia. In 1869, she started teaching in Washington, DC, and in 1871, became the first African American principal of the newly established Preparatory High School for Negroes.

Edmonia Lewis (1843-?) was a sculptor famous for drawing on themes of African American slavery and emancipation. She attended Oberlin College and left in 1862 due to a scandal. She was accused of poisoning two of her white friends. Oberlin alumnus John Mercer Langston, however, represented Lewis, and she was proven innocent. She left and after briefly working in Boston, moved to Rome in 1865. At that time, Oberlin was one of the few institutions in the United States to admit female and African American students. Attending Oberlin made a huge influence on her; it enabled her to start studying arts. The Death of Cleopatra, a life-size sculpture by Lewis, is on long-term loan to the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Lewis was the first African American sculptor to achieve national and international recognition for her portraits of abolitionists and for her depictions of ethnic and religious themes. Later, the college established the Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender People to represent anti-heterosexism and anti-racism and offer a safe space on campus to support and advocate for those disenfranchised based on gender, cisgender, or transgender.

And some still making history...

Jacqueline Berrien was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She received a bachelor’s degree in English with High Honors in government from Oberlin College, and attended Harvard Law School, where she worked as a general editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Her nomination is still pending.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (1970-present) is a politician and 49th mayor of Baltimore, the second woman and the youngest mayor in the city’s history. In 1992 she graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in political science.

Thanks for this thread, Niyad!