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{{About|the American philanthropist and suffragist|the Irish nurse|Mary McCoy}}<br />
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| birth_name = Mary Eleanora Delaney<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1846|1|26}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Lawrenceburg, Indiana]], US<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1923|11|17|1846|1|26}}<br />
| death_place = [[Detroit, Michigan]], US<br />
| spouse = {{Marriage|[[Elijah McCoy]]|1873<!--Do not put an end date per documentation-->}}<br />
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'''Mary Eleanora McCoy''' ({{nee}} '''Delaney'''; January 26, 1846 – November 17, 1923)<ref name="Oxford African American Studies">{{cite book |chapter=McCoy, Mary Eleanora |chapter-url=https://oxfordaasc.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-35827 |website=Oxford African American Studies Center |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.35827 |isbn=978-0-19-530173-1 |access-date=9 February 2022 |language=en|title=African American Studies Center |year=2013 |last1=Wright |first1=Arthuree Mclaughlin }}</ref> was an American philanthropist, organizer, and clubwoman. She is known for organizing the Michigan State Association of Colored Women.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
McCoy née Delaney was born in 1846 in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Sources differ on her exact birth date: January 26, 1846<ref name="Alexander Street">{{cite web |title=Biographical Sketch of Mary Eleanora McCoy |url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cbibliographic_details%7C4384889/biographical-sketch-mary-eleanora-mccoy |website=Alexander Street |access-date=9 February 2022}}</ref> or perhaps January 7, 1846.<ref name="Oxford African American Studies"/> She was born in an [[Underground Railroad]] station, with one source naming her parents as "Jacob C. and Eliza Ann (Montgomery) Delaney, perhaps escaped slaves".<ref name="Alexander Street"/> She married twice, first to Henry Brownlow and then to [[Elijah McCoy]]. Elijah McCoy was an inventor and the subject of the phrase [[the real McCoy]].<ref name="Alexander Street"/><br />
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The McCoys settled in Detroit in the early 1880s. Mary McCoy was an active [[clubwoman]]. She was a member of the Twentieth Century Club of Detroit, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ([[NAACP]]), the Lydian Association of Detroit, and the Willing Workers.<ref name="Alexander Street"/> With [[Lucy Thurman]], she organized the Michigan State Association of Colored Women (a chapter of the [[National Association of Colored Women]] (NACW)). Her philanthropy included participation in the establishment of the ''Sojourner Truth Memorial Association of Michigan'' which provided University of Michigan scholarships to children of former slaves. She served as vice president. She also funded the McCoy Home for Colored Children, as well as established the Phyllis Wheatley Home for Aged Colored Women in Detroit, serving as president.<ref name="Michigan Women Forward">{{cite web |title=Mary E. McCoy |url=https://miwf.org/timeline/mary-e-mccoy/ |website=Michigan Women Forward |access-date=9 February 2022}}</ref><br />
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By the early 1900s, McCoy was working for [[Women's suffrage in the United States|women's suffrage]]. She was a member of the Independent Women Voters and advocated for suffrage through her ongoing association with the NACW. She marched in the [[Woman Suffrage Procession|1913 Woman Suffrage Parade]] in Washington D.C. In 1920, she attended the [[National American Woman Suffrage Association]]'s Victory Convention in Chicago.<ref name="Alexander Street"/><br />
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McCoy died on November 17, 1923, in Detroit.<ref name="Alexander Street"/> In 2012, she was inducted into the [[Michigan Women's Hall of Fame]] and in 2016 the ''Mary E. McCoy Post Office Building'' was dedicated in Detroit.<ref name="USPS">{{cite web |title=Mary E. McCoy Post Office Dedication Ceremony |url=https://about.usps.com/news/state-releases/mi/2016/mi_2016_1109.htm |website=USPS |access-date=9 February 2022}}</ref><br />
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