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 ...

Annette Hubbell portrays the Black abolitionist, Sojourner Truth in her one-woman show, "Women Warriors." Annette Hubbell ...

Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... she garnered significant criticism from both the white and Black communities. Her very vocal nature and active lifestyle often placed ...

Mary McLeod Bethune rose to become one of the most influential Black women of the 20th century ... where she called for an end to colonization, or in the White House, where she pushed for an ...

Mary McLeod Bethune, the child of former slaves ... recognized in that moment how the ability to read and write separated white and black people, and her will to learn was ignited. Bethune ultimately ...

Born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War, educator and political leader Mary McLeod ... to the White House; she used this access to form a council of African-American advisers ...

Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... she garnered significant criticism from both the white and Black communities. Her very vocal nature and active lifestyle often placed ...