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 is best known for founding the Bethune-Cookman College, a HBCU in Daytona, but also being a standout ...

The new addition to the Board of Leadership will replace the honorable Judge Belvin Perry, who has greatly served the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mary McLeod Bethune rose to become one of the most influential Black women of the 20th century. In 1904, she founded a small school for girls in Daytona Beach, Florida. That school later became ...