Mary McLeod Bethune

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• SOURCE: The Grio
  2/2/2022
  

  The Hidden History of the New Deal's "Black Brain Trust"

  Writer Michael Harriot examines the influence of a group of African American advisors to Franklin Roosevelt, which began with the friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune.

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• 11/7/2021
  

  The Black Women Veterans of World War II Fought for More than the "Double V"

  by Kaia Alderson

  Kaia Alderson's new historical novel "Sisters in Arms" tells the story of the Black women in the World War II military whose service combined fights against fascism, racism and sexism.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  1-31-18
  

  Florida moves to replace Confederate statue in US Capitol

  The state Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to install a statue of educator Mary McLeod Bethune in the spot where a statue of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith still stands.