DAYTONA BEACH — After a three-year journey winding through government approvals, fundraising and complex logistics, the new marble Mary McLeod Bethune statue is complete and about to go on public ...

The US president has proposed creating a space to pay tribute to 250 ‘great figures of America’s history’ with a National ...

For historian Ida Jones, author of Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Education and Activism in Logan Circle, community-led programs focused on Black or Latinx histories follow in the tradition ...

DAYTONA BEACH — After a three-year journey winding through government approvals, fundraising and complex logistics, the new marble Mary McLeod Bethune statue is complete and about to go on ...

the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s exhibitions related to the history of slavery in America or the accomplishments of Mary McLeod Bethune, who established ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 to former slaves ... but it will be further etched in granite when a statue of her is placed in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol ...

When gazing at the statue, it was difficult not to “ugly cry and breakdown ... “First Lady of the Struggle: Mary McLeod Bethune and Global Black Freedom,” a course she taught in collaboration with ...

Mary McLeod Bethune is best known for founding the Bethune-Cookman College, a HBCU in Daytona, but also being a standout civil right activist. FLORIDA TODAY Editor Tim Walters joined FOX 35's ...

Philip Randolph are featured alongside Civil War spy Mary ... McLeod Bethune. Five more statues pay tribute to significant Black scientists, military leaders, religious leaders and writers. Each ...

Local leaders, including Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (center), unveiled the Mary McLeod Bethune statue in Lincoln Park for a second time on July 13, 2024. (Ja’Mon ...

Rooks’s history of the educator, philanthropist, and civil-rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune is more ... In 2022, a statue of Bethune replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol ...