The Life and Legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune
Author | : Nancy Ann Zrinyi Long |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2005-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780536120632 |
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Author | : Nancy Ann Zrinyi Long |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2005-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780536120632 |
Author | : Eloise Greenfield |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1994-07-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0064461688 |
‘During the years following the Civil War in rural South Carolina where opportunities for blacks to go to school were nonexistent, [Mary McLeod Bethune had to overcome many obstacles to pursue her dream of education for all children]. Simply told, this biography of an outstanding black educator has excellent illustrations.' 'SLJ. Children's Books of 1977 (Library of Congress)
Author | : Mary McLeod Bethune |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2001-11-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780253215031 |
A biography in documents of one of America's most influential black women. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Nancy Long |
Publisher | : Florida Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2019-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780981733760 |
This book is easy and interesting reading. It presents the "Life and Legacy" of the late Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune holistically and concludes with testimonies from living witnesses. The author narrates Dr. Bethune's early years and documents how developments in those years influenced her later accomplishments. Permeating Dr. Bethune's spectacular career is a philosophy based on deep religious convictions and held that "work was honorable, no matter how menial the task.
Author | : Ashley N. Robertson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1626199833 |
Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well. From the founding of the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in 1904, Bethune galvanized African American women for change. She created an environment in Daytona Beach that, despite racial tension throughout the state, allowed Jackie Robinson to begin his journey to integrating Major League Baseball less than two miles away from her school. Today, her legacy lives through a number of institutions, including Bethune-Cookman University and the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation National Historic Landmark. Historian Ashley Robertson explores the life, leadership and amazing contributions of this dynamic activist.
Author | : Martha S. Jones |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541618602 |
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women -- Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more -- who were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.
Author | : Rackham Holt |
Publisher | : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : African American college teachers |
ISBN | : |
A biography of the Negro educator and humanitarian who founded Bethune-Cookman College, served in Federal positions, and worked for bettering the status of women and Negroes.
Author | : Nancy Ann Zrinyi Long |
Publisher | : Florida Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : African American women educators |
ISBN | : 188610414X |
Based in part on some 30 interviews of people with first-hand knowledge of this pioneering female black activist, The Life and Legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune is an essential work of African-American biography, and only the second such effort in more than 40 years. High school and college educators who need literature about minorities and women can do no better than to acquire this text. Bethune (1875-1955) is a role model for black youth: at a time when the status of black women was generally quite low, she became an educator who started a college Bethune-Cookman, where Long teaches advised four presidents, received international acclaim and awards, and consistently fought for the rights of women and minorities. Dr. Bethune's main message to youth entering college was, "Enter to learn; depart to serve." Especially if paired with the film Mary M. Bethune: A Portrait of Faith, to which Long also contributed, The Life and Legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune will inspire students and
Author | : Jill Watts |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2020-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802146929 |
An in-depth history exploring the evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and ‘40s as FDR’s Black Cabinet. In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American defectors from the Republican Party. At the time, most African Americans lived in poverty, denied citizenship rights and terrorized by white violence. As the New Deal began, a “black Brain Trust” joined the administration and began documenting and addressing the economic hardship and systemic inequalities African Americans faced. They became known as the Black Cabinet, but the environment they faced was reluctant, often hostile, to change. “Will the New Deal be a square deal for the Negro?” The black press wondered. The Black Cabinet set out to devise solutions to the widespread exclusion of black people from its programs, whether by inventing tools to measure discrimination or by calling attention to the administration’s failures. Led by Mary McLeod Bethune, an educator and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, they were instrumental to Roosevelt’s continued success with black voters. Operating mostly behind the scenes, they helped push Roosevelt to sign an executive order that outlawed discrimination in the defense industry. They saw victories?jobs and collective agriculture programs that lifted many from poverty?and defeats?the bulldozing of black neighborhoods to build public housing reserved only for whites; Roosevelt’s refusal to get behind federal anti-lynching legislation. The Black Cabinet never won official recognition from the president, and with his death, it disappeared from view. But it had changed history. Eventually, one of its members would go on to be the first African American Cabinet secretary; another, the first African American federal judge and mentor to Thurgood Marshall. Masterfully researched and dramatically told, The Black Cabinet brings to life a forgotten generation of leaders who fought post-Reconstruction racial apartheid and whose work served as a bridge that Civil Rights activists traveled to achieve the victories of the 1950s and ’60s. Praise for The Black Cabinet “A dramatic piece of nonfiction that recovers the history of a generation of leaders that helped create the environment for the civil rights battles in decades that followed Roosevelt’s death.” —Library Journal “Fascinating . . . revealing the hidden figures of a ‘brain trust’ that lobbied, hectored and strong-armed President Franklin Roosevelt to cut African Americans in on the New Deal. . . . Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The Black Cabinet is sprawling and epic, and Watts deftly re-creates whole scenes from archival material.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
Author | : A'Lelia Bundles |
Publisher | : Scribner |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0743431723 |
Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker—the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist—by her great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Sarah Breedlove—who would become known as Madam C. J. Walker—was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then—with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women—everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women, and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. Along the way, she formed friendships with great early-twentieth-century political figures such as Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington.