Franklin Roosevelt appointed her as Director of ... president of the National Council of Negro Women, presents the Mary McLeod Bethune Human Rights Award to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the ...

Mary McLeod Bethune ... the Lincoln Memorial before a crowd of 75,000. Bethune later became a national leader who served four presidents. A friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, she was a highly visible member ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Her solitary grave rests among the serene beauty of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. Yet, the school’s founder — Mary ... President Franklin Roosevelt and he ...

Born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War, educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune grew up in South ... In 1935, she became an adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...