Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... schools in the South where she met and married a fellow teacher, Albertus Bethune, in 1898. After separating in 1907, Mary was left alone ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 to former slaves ... Thanks to the help of her teacher, Mary got a scholarship and was able to attend Scotia Seminary, now Barber-Scotia College, in North ...

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Women’s Conference will be held Wednesday, March 26 through Friday, March 28 at the Michael and Libby ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Thanks to the help of her teacher, Mary got a scholarship and ... who works for the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation. “The room once had a door but secret service had to take the door down because ...