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Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Curriculum Materials

Please contact our Interpretive Staff by e-mail or at 202 673-2402 to request that a teacher packet be mailed to you.

 
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site is also the focus of the 135th Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan, titled: The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House: African American Women Unite for Change.
Meeting of group of WANDS led by Lieut. General Lovonia H. Brown (far left).  

Did You Know?
In 1944, Mary McLeod Bethune became the leader of the Women's Army for National Defense, a black women's organization founded to "...share in this fight for democracy..., and to provide an instrument through which African American women could serve in this great crisis, with dignity and pride...."

Last Updated: November 16, 2007 at 10:45 EST