Mary McLeod Bethune

by Charles Alston

Mary McLeod Bethune

Educator, Administrator, Champion of Youth.

Springarn Medalist

Listed number twelve among the fifty most outstanding women in America.

Impressed by the fact that she had kept a careful account of his twenty five cent contribution for over a year, the late J.S. Peabody left the school ten thousand Dollars!!

With five girls, a dollar and a half, and a dream, she founded what was to become Bethune-Cookman College.

As Director of Negro Affairs for NYA “Mother” Bethune has speeded the training of thousands of negro youth.

Powerful speaker and organizer, a consistent fighter against injustice —

Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator, Administrator, Champion of Youth. by Charles Henry Alston, in the Charles Henry Alston Papers #4931, Southern Hisorical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.