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 ...

Mary Jane McLeod was born on July 10, 1875, near Mayesville, S.C., according to the National Park Service, which operates the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, a national historic site in Washington.

Educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune made history on Wednesday as the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, when her statue ...

Mary McLeod Bethune journey to the U.S. Capitol has been years ... THE SMALL HOUSE WHICH BORE HER SCHOOL IS AT THE EDGE OF ... in 1933 Mary McLeod Bethune created the Federal Council of Negro ...

July 10. 562-570-3233, shorturl.at/OT0l6. Book Soup: Shelley Fisher Fishkin discusses and signs “Jim — The Life and ...

With only $1.50 in seed funding — a reality hardly imaginable now and meager even then—Mary Jane McLeod Bethune secured a four-bedroom house for rent, and in it, on Oct. 3, 1904, the Daytona ...

Mary McLeod Bethune, pictured in the 1920s, when her school became a co-ed institution and she became the president of the National Association of Colored Women. Chicago History Museum / Getty Images ...

Description. In the first video clip, National Council of Negro Women National Chair and President Thelma Daley talks about Mary McLeod Bethune's role and accomplishments as an organizer for Civil ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ashley Robertson Preston, Howard University (THE CONVERSATION) When I first landed ...

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 ...