EDITOR'S NOTE: To celebrate Black History month, we will be reposting our series on African Americans who had a major impact ...

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

Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs, National Youth Administration (NYA); an identified member of the local committee; Marian Anderson ...

More about the unveiling: Mary ... on Mary McLeod Bethune statue Civic leaders and elected officials in Daytona Beach see the milestone as an opportunity to introduce the world to the ...

When Mary McLeod Bethune died in 1955 ... And then, at every stage of all these accomplishments, she’s actually able to move the needle in terms of aligning federal policy in ways that support ...

A 13-foot tall statue of educator and philanthropist Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune will ... according to her biography. In addition, she was the founder of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach ...

In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod ...

Mary McLeod Bethune ... who had a major impact on Florida. This story originally published in 2020. DAYTONA BEACH — Her solitary grave rests among the serene beauty of Bethune-Cookman ...