Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (born 1875)

Mary McLeod Bethune

American educator and civil rights leader (1875–1955)

Mary McLeod Bethune was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and proceeded to establish the Aframerican Women's Journal, which was the flagship journal of the…