Dorothy Height (right), president of the National Council of Negro Women, presents the Mary McLeod Bethune Human Rights Award to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the council's silver anniversary lunch ...

A 13-foot tall statue of educator and philanthropist Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune will be unveiled ... She was also a friend of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and served as an advisor to her husband ...

Mary McLeod Bethune ... House of Representatives in 1938. Bethune was aided by the close friendship she’d forged with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who saw eye to eye with Bethune on civil ...

With only $1.50 in seed funding — a reality hardly imaginable now and meager even then—Mary Jane ... Dr. Bethune leveraged her friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to lobby for ...

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

Finally, Mary McLeod Bethune ... 1927 at the Franklin D Roosevelt’s Hyde Park New York Estate, Bethune walked in holding an invitation from Sara Delano Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt was ...

A statue of Mary McLeod ... first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She was a civil rights activist and helped start the United Negro College Fund before her death in 1955. A statue of Mary McLeod Bethune ...

When Mary McLeod Bethune died in 1955 ... In that role, she meets the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the mother-in-law to Eleanor Roosevelt. From there, Eleanor introduces her to a series ...

Mary McLeod Bethune’s likeness will replace that of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the National Statuary Hall of the Capitol building. Though the hall has undergone revisions like Smith ...

When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod ... became Bethune-Cookman University. While living in Washington, D.C., where she moved to work with the Roosevelt ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in ... Along the way, she befriended First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who stayed at her home on the Bethune-Cookman campus on three different occasions.