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Martha Cassell Thompson was born in 1925 in Washington. She was a civil rights activist and a leader in the African-American community. She was a founding member of the National Council of Negro Women and served as its president from 1965 to 1969. She was also a member of the National Urban League and the NAACP. Thompson was a graduate of Howard University and received her master's degree from the University of Chicago. She was a teacher and principal in the Washington, D.C. public school system for more than 30 years. Thompson was a leader in the civil rights movement and was a key figure in the desegregation of the Washington, D.C. public school system. She was also a leader in the fight for equal pay for African-American teachers. Thompson was a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1969. She was also inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993. Thompson passed away in 2008 at the age of 83.

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Date of death 1968 (aged 42–43)
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1949

Thompson, from 1949 to 1951, worked for an architectural firm in St. Louis. After which, she worked with architect Philip Hurbert Frohman (1887-1972) at the firm Frohman, Robb, & Little in the District of Columbia. There, given her expertise on Gothic architecture, she became the chef restoration architect for the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul (originally designed by Bodley & Vaughn), later known as the Washington National Cathedral. She was also one of the only women architects on the team responsible for the completion of the project. She worked on the project from 1959 to 1968.

1948

In 1948 Martha Cassell married Dr. Victor Thompson, who was a medical student at Meharry Medical College. They had one child, Karen Thompson, in 1949, who trained at Illinois Institute of Technology and became the third generation of architects. Martha Cassell Thompson died in 1968, and is buried at the Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland, Maryland.

1943

Martha Ann Cassell Thompson was the second child of Albert Cassell, an architect, and Ann Mason Cassell, a Baltimore Public school teacher. She attended James Monroe Elementary School, Garnett Patterson and Banneker Junior School, and Dunbar High School, graduating as class valedictorian in 1943. Along with her siblings Charles Cassell and Alberta Jeannette Cassell, Martha was encouraged by their father Albert Cassell to attend Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning for graduate work. She attained a Bachelor of Science in architecture from Cornell University's School of Architecture in 1947 or 1948. She and her sister Alberta Jeannette Cassell were the first two African American women to graduate with a bachelor of architecture from the university.

1925

Martha Ann Cassell Thompson (1925 – 1968) was a member of the prominent Cassell Family of African-American architects. She was the chief restoration architect for the Washington National Cathedral.