The educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune died in 1955. Had there been a Mount Rushmore of Black achievement, mourners said at the time, she would have been on it. Bethune’s ...

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, ...

When I attended the Mary McLeod Bethune Festival in Mayesville recently, I knew there’d be plenty of good food and wonderful hospitality to enjoy. But the thing I most wanted to taste was the lemonade ...

Ten feet tall. Larger than life. Surely, that describes the person in history you most admire. He was a giant among men. Her actions were bigger than anyone could imagine in her time and place. You ...

A rediscovered collection of Mary McLeod Bethune's papers at Fisk University sheds light on her collaboration with Charles S. Johnson and their efforts to advance Black education. Bethune and Johnson, ...

When Mary McLeod Bethune died in 1955, tributes flooded in. Mourners said that if there had been a Mount Rushmore of Black achievement, she would have been on it. Born to parents who were enslaved, ...