Dorothy Height (right), president of the National Council of Negro Women, presents the Mary McLeod Bethune Human Rights Award to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the council's silver anniversary lunch ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in ... Along the way, she befriended First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who stayed at her home on the Bethune-Cookman campus on three different occasions.

Born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War, educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune grew up in South ... Her close personal friendship with Eleanor and Franklin D.

Mary McLeod Bethune, the child of former slaves, grew up to start a university and advise presidents. All it took was a child snatching a book from her hands. It happened in a flash, but the life of ...

In honor of Women's History Month, we celebrate the trailblazing women activists and politicians who paved the way in ...

When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod ... became Bethune-Cookman University. While living in Washington, D.C., where she moved to work with the Roosevelt ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Her solitary grave rests among the serene beauty of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. Yet, the school’s founder — Mary ... First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who ...