In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American ...

Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... to buy the home in which Mary was eventually born. All members of the family worked in the fields -- even Mary who at the age of nine ...

On October 3, 1904, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune opened a training school in Daytona Beach, Florida with “$1.50, faith in God and ...

Born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War, educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune grew up in South Carolina ... She became the only child in her family to receive an ...

A member of the legendary rap group Run-DMC stopped by Mary McLeod Bethune School to read his children's book, showing students that storytelling is the ultimate track. "He was proud of his poem ...

Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... to buy the home in which Mary was eventually born. All members of the family worked in the fields -- even Mary who at the age of nine ...

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 – I didn ...