Mary Mcleod Bethune
Title: Mary Mcleod Bethune
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Mary Mcleod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955) was one of the most powerful African Americans in the United States for more than a quarter of a century. She earned national prominence as an organizer, administrator, educator, fund-raiser, advocate, spokesperson, orator, and activist. In addition to serving as president of Bethune-Cookman College, Bethune was president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs and founder and president of the National Council of Negro Women. In Washington, as a member …
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Subject files on the United Nations detail Bethune’s support for improved worldwide understanding and her concern for the standing of peoples of color around the globe. Her dedication to the international Moral Rearmament movement and other religion-based social movements is also documented thoroughly.
The forthcoming Part 4 will cover the administration of Bethune-Cookman College from 1917 and the establishment of the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation in 1950.
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