Unlike her parents and 16 siblings ... 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 ...
Mary McLeod Bethune is best known for founding the Bethune-Cookman College, a HBCU in Daytona, but also being a standout ...
She was taught by her family that her roots were in Africa ... Her training prepared her to become a missionary. Mary McLeod Bethune rose to become one of the most influential Black women of ...
Born Mary Jane McLeod, Bethune was the 15th of 17 children. She grew up on a farm in South Carolina and began working in the fields when she was 5. The only child in her family to be educated, she ...
Mary McLeod Bethune started a school in 1904 with $1.50 and five students. It is now Bethune-Cookman University.
Unlike her parents and 16 siblings ... 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 ...
She was taught by her family that her roots were in Africa ... Her training prepared her to become a missionary. Mary McLeod Bethune rose to become one of the most influential Black women of the 20th ...