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 ...

NCNW, and other Black women activists. The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is honoring civil and women’s rights icon Mary McLeod Bethune with an ongoing exhibit ...

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 ...

With only $1.50 in seed funding — a reality hardly imaginable now and meager even then—Mary Jane McLeod Bethune secured a ... Council of Negro Women (NCNW) in 1935. The following year, she ...

Mary McLeod ... Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935 as an “organization of organizations” whose membership has grown to more than 2 million people nationwide. NCNW ...

Civil Rights icon, educator, author, philanthropist, humanitarian and women's rights activist Dr. Mary McLeod ... Dr. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) in 1935.

A 13-foot tall statue of educator and philanthropist Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune will be unveiled this week inside the U.S. Capitol Building after an arduous five-year process to get there.

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.