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 ...
Once again in our long and noble struggle, Martin Luther King’s dictum “The Urgency of Now!” is upon us. This reckoning with ...
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Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ also sought to unify the African diasporaMary 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 ...
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 ...
Mary McLeod Bethune overcame all odds to found a school to educate black people at a time of division and segregation in America.
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 ...
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