Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... buy the home in which Mary was eventually born. All members of the family worked in the fields -- even Mary who at the age of nine could ...
She was taught by her family that her roots were in Africa ... s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site was the first headquarters ...
Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 to former ... The original school was nothing more than a small rented house where Bethune made benches and desks from discarded crates and acquired other ...
At Mary McLeod Bethune Council House in Washington, D.C., the Park Service is determined ... Carolina and began working in the fields when she was 5. The only child in her family to be educated, she ...