Discover must-read books and literary works by W.E.B. Du Bois, exploring race, identity, and social justice in powerful and ...

Dr. Karida L. Brown, author of The Battle for the Black Mind, warns that today’s attacks on public education echo a long ...

Their partnership led to "The Personal Librarian" and "The First Ladies," their 2023 novel about the strong partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod ...

Later, she helped found the Atlanta chapters of both the National Association of Colored Women and the NAACP. She died in 1947. Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 in South Carolina. She was one of ...

The Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Home, known as The Retreat ... The museum highlights her contributions, including her work with the NAACP, and offers exhibits on the broader civil rights struggle ...

She advocated for anti-lynching laws, successfully integrated the U.S. suffragist movement, and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP ... the horrors she ...

The program hailed Harris as serving the NAACP of Marion County with “pride ... He is the author of 11 books, including “Letters to Mr. Davis from Thurgood Marshall, Mary McLeod Bethune, Matin Luther ...

Um, the NAACP was looking for someone to ... She had read in a magazine where Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and First Lady Roosevelt, they were looking for Black women to join the military.

Last month, Noliwe Rooks, the chair of the Department of Africana Studies, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for her 2024 book “A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod ...

Moore organized the Brevard County branch of the NAACP in 1934 ... rights pioneer led 1000s of black Floridians to vote Mary McLeod Bethune taught black girls they could be more “Over the ...

The former home of Bethune-Cookman University founder, Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune ... Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County in 1934. The couple died in 1951 ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is honoring civil and women’s rights icon Mary McLeod Bethune with ... of Colored Persons (NAACP). She also led voter ...