 Another item from Special Collections that has ties to Mary Church Terrell is this leaflet from our Rare Books collection. The title here is The Aminia Conference. It was written by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1925. In it, Du Bois writes about the origin and impact of the NAACP's Aminia Conference, which took place in August 1916 in Troutbeck, New York, which is near Aminia. It was held at the estate of Joel Spingarn, who is a fellow founding member of the NAACP. The conference was organized to bring together the nation's black leaders and to mark a new era after the death of Booker T. Washington the year before. Mary Church Terrell was in attendance as she was a charter member of the NAACP, and Du Bois names her as the representative from Washington. He also lists her as one of only six black women at the conference. As such, Terrell certainly was an instrumental part of helping to establish a common agenda for the black movement going forward, emphasizing voting, education, and full rights for African Americans under the Constitution. This is a pretty unique publication. As you can see here, it is a first and only edition. There were only 200 copies made, and it was published by Spingarn's own Troutbeck Press.