Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... In one instance, she curiously opened a book. Immediately, one of the white children snatched it from her exclaiming, "Put that down.

Mary McLeod Bethune, pictured in the 1920s ... Thurgood Marshall admired the lawyer’s work and referred to her 1951 book, States’ Laws on Race and Color, as the bible of the civil rights ...

That experience ultimately laid the foundation for my 2023 book, “Mary McLeod Bethune The Pan-Africanist.” Pan-Africanism, according to Nigerian historian P. Olisanwuche Esedebe, is a ...

Mary McLeod Bethune, the child of former slaves, grew up to start a university and advise presidents. All it took was a child snatching a book from her hands. It happened in a flash, but the life of ...

Born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War, educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune grew up in South Carolina as the 15th of 17 children. Despite a childhood of poverty ...