The Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Home, known as The Retreat, was built in 1905 by A.B. Raddick, a prominent Black architect of his time. The residence of Bethune-Cookman University’s founder until ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 to former slaves. Found school for girls in 1904 with only $1.50. Friendship with first lady leads to federal appointment at National Youth Administration ...

There was Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X; Ida B. Wells and Mary Jane McLeod Bethune. There are the more controversial folks like Black Panther leader Bobby Seale and activist Marcus Garvey.

Mary McLeod ... in 1875, Bethune was one of 17 children born to formerly enslaved parents. After completing her studies at Scotia Seminary and the Bible Institute for Home and Foreign Missions ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is honoring civil and women’s rights icon Mary McLeod Bethune with ... Moody’s Institute for Home and Foreign Missions ...

When Mary McLeod Bethune died in 1955 ... all of the folks who were not going to school, she would come home and they’d give her letters to read, or they’d ask her to write letters.

Read More: 100 Women of the Year: Mary McLeod Bethune With her story in my mind, I had prepared for the trip as scholars do when we leave home to research something. I knew which archives in the ...

The idea is a place “where everyone can live together in homes that are all the way from market rate to subsidized,” said Mayor Jane Castor ... The renovated Mary McLeod Bethune Apartments ...

Ashley Robertson Preston is a former employee of Bethune-Cookman University and Bethune Council House. When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune ...

When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site – the D.C. home of the woman who founded Bethune-Cookman University ...