On the eve of the unveiling of the marble statue of Mary McLeod Bethune at the U.S ... to a visit that Bethune made in 1927 to a European garden filled with roses in a rainbow of colors.

Educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune makes history as the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, replacing a confederate statue.

Evelyn Bethune, front left in yellow, a granddaughter of Mary McLeod Bethune, speaks with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, as members of the Congressional Black Caucus gather around an unveiled ...

Mary McLeod Bethune’s likeness will replace that of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the National Statuary Hall of the Capitol building. ... Bethune was the only woman of color in attendance.

The three-ton statue of Mary McLeod Bethune, which now resides in the U.S. Capitol, was on display at the News-Journal Center in Daytona Beach, on Monday, October 11, 2021.

After five years of waiting, the statue of Mary McLeod Bethune will be unveiled at 11 a.m. July 13, in National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.

Civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune is the first Black American to represent a state in Statuary Hall. Congressional leaders celebrated the unveiling and Bethune's legacy. Rep. Nancy Pelosi ...

An 11-foot marble likeness of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol, replacing a statue of a former Confederate general that represented ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 to former slaves. Found school for girls in 1904 with only $1.50. Friendship with first lady leads to federal appointment at National Youth Administration; ...