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.
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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.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 8.4 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches; Dust jacket condition: Good. Solid retired library book with usual library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Scarce title. 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 Mc-Leod Bethune founded the small school that grew under her guidance into Bethune-Cookman College; she served the National Youth Administration as Director of the Division of Negro Affairs; and she founded the National Council of Negro Women, for which she worked for over two decades. These great accomplishments, among 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.
