Franklin Roosevelt appointed her as Director of ... president of the National Council of Negro Women, presents the Mary McLeod Bethune Human Rights Award to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Her solitary grave rests among the serene beauty of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. Yet, the school’s founder — Mary ... President Franklin Roosevelt and he ...

Mary McLeod Bethune ... the Lincoln Memorial before a crowd of 75,000. Bethune later became a national leader who served four presidents. A friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, she was a highly visible member ...

Born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War, educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune grew up in South ... In 1935, she became an adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

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

Once again in our long and noble struggle, Martin Luther King’s dictum “The Urgency of Now!” is upon us. This reckoning with America’s latest racial nightmare, “The Souls of Black ...

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 ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 ... Through their friendship, Bethune met President Franklin Roosevelt and he named her to be chair of the National Youth Administration, a federal agency.