Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs, National Youth Administration (NYA); an identified member of the local committee; Marian Anderson ...

“Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune’s statue unveiling and dedication ... President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, according to her biography. In addition, she was the founder of Bethune-Cookman University ...

Mary McLeod Bethune, pictured in the 1920s, when her school became a co-ed institution and she became the president of the National Association of Colored Women. Chicago History Museum / Getty ...

Mary Mcleod Bethune Middle is a public school located in Los Angeles, CA, which is in a large city setting. The student population of Mary Mcleod Bethune Middle is 858 and the school serves 7-8.

Educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune makes history as the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, replacing a confederate statue.

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 to former slaves. Found school for girls in 1904 with only $1.50. Friendship with first lady leads to federal appointment at National Youth Administration ...

On October 3, 1904, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune opened a training school in Daytona Beach, Florida, with “$1.50, faith in God and five little girls.” Eventually, that school, then called the ...

Let me back up. With only $1.50 in seed funding — a reality hardly imaginable now and meager even then—Mary Jane McLeod Bethune secured a four-bedroom house for rent, and in it, on Oct. 3 ...