Mary McLeod Bethune A Biography Author:Rackham Holt The author of the best-selling biography George Washington Carver has in this new book sympathetically but accurately recorded the dynamic personality and accomplishments of a great woman who devoted her life to improving the social and educational position of her fellow Negroes - particularly Negro youth. Mary McLeod Bethune founded the small ... more »school that grew under guidance intho Bethune-Cookman College; she served the National Youth Administration as Director of the Division of the Negro Affairs; and she founded the National Council of Negro Women, for which she worked for over two decades.
These great accomplishments, amoung countless other achievements, stand as monuments to this woman - recipient of eleven honorary degrees and six medals and decorations - who was friend to Presidents, and more than friend to all American Negroes.« less