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 started a school in 1904 with $1.50 and five students. It is now Bethune-Cookman University.

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 ...

Ashley Robertson Preston, Howard University (THE CONVERSATION) When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site – the D ...

The keynote, featuring North Carolina A&T history professor Jelani Favors, is free and open to the public starting at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday at the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center ...

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 ...

When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site – the D.C. home of the woman who founded Bethune-Cookman University – I didn ...