More about the unveiling: Mary McLeod Bethune statue unveiling ... each book also is inscribed with a different tenet of Bethune’s last will and testament, addressing her core values.

Mary McLeod Bethune has been standing tall in bronze ... Written on her statue are the words from her last will and testament: "I leave you love, I leave you hope, I leave you the challenge ...

A statue of inspirational civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune has supplanted ... Clyburn also read from Bethune's last will and testament: "I leave you love and I leave you hope.

When Mary McLeod Bethune died in 1955, tributes flooded in. Mourners said that if there had been a Mount Rushmore of Black achievement, she would have been on it. Born to parents who were enslaved ...

Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod ... last year in removing a statue of Edmund Kirby Smith, among the last Confederate generals to surrender after the Civil War. Bethune ...

Mary McLeod Bethune is the first Black American ... with a symbol of hope and inspiration.” Bethune wrote a “last will and testament” essay in 1954, the year before she died, about the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune ... among the last Confederate generals to surrender after the Civil War. Bethune joins John Gorrie ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The statue of civil rights icon Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled ... the National Council of Negro Women, and Bethune’s last home in the District.

WASHINGTON – Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune ... among the last Confederate generals to surrender after the Civil War. Bethune joins John Gorrie, a pioneer ...

WASHINGTON — Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune ... among the last Confederate generals to surrender after the Civil War. Bethune joins John Gorrie, a pioneer ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., unveiled “Force for Change: Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women’s Activism" last month. Visitors can gain furth ...