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Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ also sought to unify the African diaspora

  • Written by Ashley Robertson Preston, Assistant Professor of History, Howard University
imageEducator Mary McLeod Bethune regularly wrote of her travels abroad.Robert Abbott Sengstacke via Getty Images

When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site – the D.C. home of the woman who founded Bethune-Cookman University – I didn’t see a strong...

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