For half a century, Mary McLeod Bethune led a vanguard of black American women who pointed the nation toward its best ideals. In 1974, the NCNW raised funds to install a bronze likeness of Bethune ...

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 ...

Mary McLeod Bethune, the child of former slaves ... Truman to integrate the U.S. military, which he ultimately did in 1948. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) in 1935 and ...

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 as the 15th of 17 children. Despite a childhood of poverty ...

When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National ... people from ...