Dorothy Height (right), president of the National Council of Negro Women, presents the Mary McLeod Bethune Human Rights Award to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the council's silver anniversary lunch ...

Dorothy Height (right), president of the National Council of Negro Women, presents the Mary McLeod Bethune Human Rights Award to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the council's silver anniversary lunch ...

Mary McLeod Bethune ... s DAR Constitution Hall in 1939, Bethune called the White House to intervene, setting the stage for Anderson’s subsequent performance at the Lincoln Memorial before a crowd of ...

When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod ... became Bethune-Cookman University. While living in Washington, D.C., where she moved to work with the Roosevelt ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was convinced at an early age that the ability to read was a key barrier to racial equality, and she dedicated her life to helping African-Americans attain better access to ...