Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, in 1875, Mary McCleod was the 15th of 17 children born to former slaves Sam and Patsy McLeod. She was the first of her siblings to be born into freedom.

Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ also sought to unify the African diaspora. Story by Ashley Robertson Preston, Howard University • 2w.

An associate professor of history and the founding director of the Mary McLeod Bethune Center for the Study of Women and Girls at Bethune-Cookman writes of her legacy for Women's History Month.

Educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune makes history as the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, replacing a confederate statue.

Mary McLeod Bethune, whose parents were born enslaved, was an educator, activist and presidential adviser. A statue of her now represents Florida in the U.S. Capitol.

A statue of inspirational civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune has supplanted that of a Confederate general within the U.S. Capitol.. The 11-foot-tall statue, unveiled in a ceremony Wednesday ...

Born on July 10, 1875, in South Carolina, Bethune was the youngest of 17 children to parents Samuel and Patsy McLeod. According to the National Women’s History Museum, she studied at Scotia ...

She's not taught in all history books yet.Before Martin Luther King Junior, before Rosa Parks, before John Lewis, there was Mary McLeod Bethune."Dr. Bethune, what she was born into, and how she ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 to former slaves. Found school for girls in 1904 with only $1.50. Friendship with first lady leads to federal appointment at National Youth Administration ...

Mary McLeod Bethune is "one of the luminaries in American education history," Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts says during an event Thursday in the educator's honor.

Kameron Turner, 3, visits the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune statue with his dad Karsceal at the News-Journal Center in Daytona Beach, Fla. Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021.