Mrs. Mary McLeod ... that the McLeod children attend. The family could only afford to send one; Mary was selected. She walked the five miles to and from the Maysville school and did her homework ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The statue of civil rights icon Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune ... that we live in," said Bethune's great grandson, Charles. There’s also a statue of her in Lincoln Park.

“Mary McLeod Bethune is this figure that many people ... She’s the first in her family to even go to school. But that’s not where it stops. “She goes from there to working in the women ...

With only $1.50 in seed funding — a reality hardly imaginable now and meager even then—Mary Jane McLeod ... Dr. Bethune understood education for Black people to be a part of her divine calling.

When I attended the Mary McLeod Bethune Festival in Mayesville recently ... as she spent evenings teaching her family what she had learned in school that day. As she would reflect back later ...

She was taught by her family that her roots were in Africa ... Her training prepared her to become a missionary. Mary McLeod Bethune rose to become one of the most influential Black women of ...

Mary McLeod Bethune’s likeness will replace that of ... South Carolina to formerly-enslaved people in 1875 and worked on her family’s cotton farm before attending schools in North Carolina ...

The backstory: Mary McLeod Bethune's early 1900s achievements still ... Bethune was the first person in her family to learn to read and write. The cap and gown are only one of the symbolic element ...

Taryn White is a D.C.-based travel writer who covers a wide range of topics, including family travel ... the world with her husband and two travel-loving kids. Mary McLeod Bethune's legacy ...

An 11-foot marble likeness of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune was ... and the only child among 17 in her family to attend school, Bethune moved to Florida at the start of ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was a civil rights activist and the daughter of former slaves. Now her statue stands in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall. She's the first African American to be honored there.