Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs, National Youth Administration (NYA); an identified member of the local committee; Marian Anderson ...

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 ...

Mary McLeod Bethune rose to become one of the most influential Black women of the 20th century. In 1904, she founded a small ...

Mary McLeod Bethune, the child of former slaves, grew up to start a university and advise presidents. All it took was a child snatching a book from her hands. It happened in a flash, but the life of ...

A Bethune-Cookman University program is helping dozens of students reach the commencement finish line by covering outstanding ...

Black Bike Week also burnished its creds by wrapping up its 54th year on Saturday at Daytona Beach’s Joe Harris Park and other spots along Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard. The family friendly ...

Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs, National Youth Administration (NYA); an identified member of the local committee; Marian Anderson ...