Central Carolina Technical College issued the following announcement on February 7.
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
To honor Black History Month, our figure of the week is Mary McLeod Bethune. A native of Mayesville, South Carolina, Bethune was one of the most important black educators, civil and women’s rights leaders, and government officials of the twentieth century. She founded the National Council of Negro Women, served as an advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which gave African Americans an advocate in their government, and created a boarding school for African American children that would later become Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
This year, Bethune will make history as being the first African American to have a state-commissioned statue in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall, when her statue replaces that of a Confederate general.
Read more about our amazing figure of the week here: https://www.npr.org/.../mary-mcleod-bethune-statue-us...
Original source can be found here.
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