Chicago History Museum / Getty Images The ... For half a century, Mary McLeod Bethune led a vanguard of black American women who pointed the nation toward its best ideals. In 1974, the NCNW ...

Mary McLeod Bethune rose to become one of the most ... Woodson, the founder of what we now know to be Black History Month, during her time as president of the Association for the Study of Negro ...

presents the Mary McLeod Bethune Human Rights Award to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the council's silver anniversary lunch here, 1960. Courtesy: Library of Congress Many within the Black community ...

the founder and first director of the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and the National Archives for Black Women’s History. “From 1935 to her death in 1955, she was the single most important ...

Born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War, educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune grew up in South Carolina ... advisers that became known as the Roosevelts' "Black ...