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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, “Forces for Change: Mary McLeod ...