Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... 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 could ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The statue of civil rights icon Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled at a special congressional statue dedication and unveiling ceremony Wednesday at the Statuary Hall in ...

Mary McLeod Bethune ... continued to work on the family farm. After completing studies at Scotia Seminary and, in 1895, at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Bethune took a teaching post ...

A statue of inspirational civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune has supplanted ... latest news of the day Born into a family of South Carolina slaves, Bethune opened her own school for Black ...

WINTER HAVEN -- Noted as perhaps one of the greatest American teachers in U.S. history, Mary McLeod Bethune ... Cain said she was told by her family members that Bethune advised every U.S ...

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It was the late 19th century, and a young Mary McLeod tagged along when her mother went to do some work at the home of the white family she ... books,” Mary McLeod Bethune recounted to ...

Lawmakers unveiled a new statue Wednesday of civil rights icon, educator and women’s rights activist Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune ... moment” for the Bethune family and for American history ...

Speaking on the city's Riverfront Esplanade next to Mary McLeod Bethune's 13-foot-tall bronze ... The first in her family not to be born into slavery, she became one of the most influential ...

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