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Memorable: photos from the ebony files - Brief Article

Ebony,  Feb, 2004  

MARY McLEOD BETHUNE, who founded Bethune-Cookman College in 1904 and was the first Black woman to receive a major U.S. government appointment (director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration), was one mentor and mother-figure for generations of Black male and female leaders. The founder of the National Council of Negro Women also served as a special advisor to presidents Roosevelt and Truman. She played a major role in focusing attention on a variety of Black problems.

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