Born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War, educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune grew up in South Carolina ... She became the only child in her family to receive an ...

She was taught by her family that her roots were in Africa ... s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site was the first headquarters ...

Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... buy the home in which Mary was eventually born. All members of the family worked in the fields -- even Mary who at the age of nine could ...

At Mary McLeod Bethune Council House in Washington, D.C., the Park Service is determined ... Carolina and began working in the fields when she was 5. The only child in her family to be educated, she ...

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