When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune ... were for records of Bethune’s work within what is known as FDR’s “Black Cabinet,” an unofficial ...

Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... considered her one of his foremost advisers in the unofficial "Black cabinet" in his administration. He frequently consulted with her ...

She was also part of his Black Cabinet, an unofficial advisory council of prominent African Americans. “Bethune was an iconic figure and a power broker with few equals,” says Bettye Collier-Thomas, ...

Moore: Civil rights pioneer led 1000s of black Floridians to vote Mary McLeod Bethune taught black girls they could be more Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, in 1875, Mary McCleod was the 15th ...

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