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

Franklin Roosevelt appointed her as Director of ... president of the National Council of Negro Women, presents the Mary McLeod Bethune Human Rights Award to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the ...

A statue of inspirational civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod ... Drake said. Bethune also championed women's rights and the right to vote. Named to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's unofficial ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 ... Through their friendship, Bethune met President Franklin Roosevelt and he named her to be chair of the National Youth Administration, a federal agency.

A statue of Mary ... Bethune taught in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida before starting her own boarding school in 1904. In 1936, she began serving as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ...

Finally, Mary McLeod Bethune is getting ... the National Council for Women in 1927 at the Franklin D Roosevelt’s Hyde Park New York Estate, Bethune walked in holding an invitation from Sara ...

When Mary McLeod Bethune died in 1955 ... she was some sort of beloved educator and that she worked in the [Franklin D.] Roosevelt administration. But when you look at the trajectory of her ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is honoring civil and women’s rights icon Mary McLeod Bethune ... former president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unofficial ...

Image A view of the exhibition, showing a photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt with Mary McLeod Bethune, a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s informal “Black Cabinet” and a close ally.Credit ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Her solitary grave rests among the serene beauty of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. Yet, the ...