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 ...

Let me back up. 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 ...

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 ...

Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune on Wednesday became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol's Statuary Hall Florida commissioned ...

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.

DAYTONA BEACH — Her solitary grave rests among the serene beauty of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. Yet, the ...

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 ...

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 was born in 1875 to former slaves. Found school for girls in 1904 with only $1.50. Friendship with first lady leads to federal appointment at National Youth Administration ...