Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... to buy the home in which Mary was eventually born. All members of the family worked in the fields -- even Mary who at the age of nine ...

When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National ... She was taught by her family that her roots were in Africa. Throughout her life ...

Mary McLeod Bethune ... continued to work on the family farm. After completing studies at Scotia Seminary and, in 1895, at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Bethune took a teaching post ...