Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune ... Mary was left alone to care for their young son. One year later, Mary Bethune returned to her life's passion. Hearing that the labor needed to build a railroad ...

TAVARES, Fla. — The Lake County Historical Society unveiled a new statue in honor of Central Florida trailblazer Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. Bethune, a tireless champion of national civil rights ...

When I attended the Mary McLeod Bethune Festival in ... that completely changed her life’s trajectory provides the perfect illustration. When Mary was a young girl growing up in Mayesville ...

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

With only $1.50 in seed funding — a reality hardly imaginable now and meager even then—Mary Jane McLeod Bethune ... of thousands of young African Americans. In 1944, Dr. Bethune co-founded ...

“Mary McLeod Bethune was the most powerful woman I can remember as a child. She has been an inspiration throughout my whole life.” A brilliant legal mind, Mur- ray was an ardent advocate for ...

When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod ... Bethune-Cookman University – I didn’t see a strong connection between the college founder’s life and ...

When Mary McLeod Bethune ... consistent about Bethune that you see in this last will and testament, that is consistent throughout her life, is that we have to center our young people.

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Mary McLeod Bethune ... Roosevelt named Bethune the point person for Black youth at the National Youth Administration, a New Deal agency focused on employment for young people, making her the ...

The life of civil rights activists Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune will be ... Born in 1875 to former slaves, Bethune was denied the right to read as a young girl in the segregated Jim Crow South but ...

Bethune’s groundbreaking life is the subject of a new book, “A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune.” The book’s author and chair of Africana studies at ...