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To the Black press, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was often referred to as the ”First Lady of Negro America.” She was nationally recognized for her numerous efforts to enhance the circumstances of Black Americans.
Apr 2, 2014 · Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator and activist, serving as president of the National Association of Colored Women and founding the National Council of Negro Women.
Mary McLeod Bethune used the power of education, political activism, and civil service to achieve racial and gender equality throughout the United States and the world.
Life Story: Mary McLeod Bethune, (1875–1955) Fighting for Racial Equality through Education and Public Service The story of a woman whose Progressive Era commitment to education and civil rights led to high-profile roles in New Deal America.
Mary McLeod Bethune was a passionate educator and presidential advisor. In her long career of public service, she became one of the earliest black female activists that helped lay the foundation to the modern civil rights movement.
The 19th Amendment, ratified in August 1920, paved the way for American women to vote, but the educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune knew the work had only just begun: The amendment alone...
Pioneering American educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune with her students at the one-room schoolhouse she founded, the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls, 1905. Library of Congress. “When They See Me, They Know That the Negro Is Present” Mary McLeod Bethune.
