Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... had been enslaved on the McIntosh and McLeod plantations in Maysville, South Carolina, a "country town in the midst of rice and cotton ...

Florida replaced a statue of a Confederate general with one honoring Black educator Mary McLeod Bethune and North Carolina replaced a statue of a white supremacist who served as governor with a ...

Reed highlighted the historical significance of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and its founders, including Frederick Patterson, Mary McLeod Bethune, and William Trenton. He explained how ...