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Title Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C. : activism & education in Logan Circle / Dr. Ida E. Jones.
Author Jones, Ida, author.
Publication Info. Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2013.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B BETHUNE    Check Shelves
Description 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / by Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis -- 1. Mary Jane McLeod -- Give Them a Chance : The Daytona Industrial School -- Leading the National Association of Colored Women -- An Act of Kindness, A Lifelong Friendship -- 2. Becoming a Washington Resident -- President Roosevelt Calls : National Youth Administration -- Showcasing Negro Women : NCNW at 1318 Vermont Avenue, NW -- Publishing and Preserving Negro Women's History -- 3. In the House -- Celebrating All Womankind : The Honor Roll -- All the World's Welcome : International Visitors -- We Serve America, Keep Your Job, Young Women & Employment -- 4. For the House -- Home Runs, Brotherly Love and Bethune Benefit Games -- Sing a Song Full of Hope : Concerts for Civil and Human Rights -- Jim Crow Sends Stork to DC Street : Committee on Sibley Hospital -- Beauty, Health and Delta Sigma Theta -- 5. Stepping Aside : Bidding Washington Adieu -- The Magnificent Dreamer Retires -- Dr. Dorothy Ferebee Installed as President -- Washington in the Rearview -- Appendix: Bethune's Washington Timeline, 1936-1949.
Subject Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955.
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 -- Homes and haunts -- Washington (D.C.)
African American women educators -- Biography.
African American educators -- Biography.
African American women political activists -- Biography.
Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
African American women -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Education -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
Washington (D.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ocls african american adult books
ocls civil rights
ISBN 1626190062 (paperback)
9781626190061 (paperback) : $19.99
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