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 ... Roosevelt won her unprecedented access to the White House ...
DAYTONA BEACH — Her solitary grave rests among the serene beauty of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. Yet, the school’s founder — Mary McLeod ... the homes of white people where ...
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... Mary Jane McLeod would routinely accompany her mother to deliver the "white people's" wash. Allowed into the white children's nursery ...
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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 ... where she called for an end to colonization, or in the White House, where she pushed for an end to poll taxes for Africans ...
Mary McLeod Bethune, the child of former slaves ... to an integrated audience at Washington’s DAR Constitution Hall in 1939, Bethune called the White House to intervene, setting the stage for Anderson ...
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