Mary McLeod Bethune was convinced at an early age that the ... Roosevelt won her unprecedented access to the White House; she used this access to form a council of African-American advisers that ...

The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site was the first headquarters of the organization. It was purchased ...

Mary McLeod Bethune ... President Franklin Roosevelt’s Federal Council on Negro Affairs, unofficially known as the “Black Cabinet.” Bethune, seeing how desperately black Americans needed ...

“But you don’t hear much about her anymore.” At Mary McLeod Bethune Council House in Washington, D.C., the Park Service is determined to change that. Located in the former headquarters of the National ...

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 ...