More about the unveiling: Mary McLeod Bethune statue unveiling this week at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. Leaders behind statue project: Diverse Daytona Beach group joins forces on Mary ...

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 ...

We were headed to see the newly unveiled statue of American educator and humanitarian Mary McLeod Bethune that was due to travel up the East Coast from Florida, with a stop in South Carolina ...

A statue of inspirational civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune has supplanted that of a Confederate general within the U.S. Capitol. The 11-foot-tall statue, unveiled in a ceremony Wednesday ...

Evelyn Bethune, front left in yellow, a granddaughter of Mary McLeod Bethune, speaks with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, as members of the Congressional Black Caucus gather around an unveiled ...

Educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune makes history as the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, replacing a confederate statue.

A statue of Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol, making her the first Black American in the National Statuary Hall collection. Bethune was a civil rights activist ...

“To have her statue here is quite phenomenal, absolutely, as a reminder of what our democracy is about,” said granddaughter Evelyn Bethune. Mary McLeod Bethune is perhaps most remembered for ...

TAVARES — Lake County officials on Tuesday unveiled a statue of American educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, who was best known for her advocacy in the Groveland Four case ...

CHRISTINA: IT’S A HISTORIC EVENT YEARS IN THE MAKING. TOMORROW, THE STATUE OF DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE WILL BE UNVEILED IN THE U.S. CAPITOL. JIM: DR. BETHUNE WAS NAMED FOR THIS SPECIAL HONOR IN ...

WASHINGTON — Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune on Wednesday became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary ...

When Mary McLeod Bethune died in 1955, tributes flooded in. Mourners said that if there had been a Mount Rushmore of Black achievement, she would have been on it. Born to parents who were enslaved ...