• Council House Front Door

    Mary McLeod Bethune Council House

    National Historic Site DC

Painting of Mary McLeod Bethune

Oil painting portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune by Anne Beadenkopf.

Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune. An oil painting by Anne Beadenkopf. Catalog number MAMC 000027.

NPS Photo by Kenneth J. Chandler.

MAMC 000027

Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune. An oil painting by Anne Beadenkopf in a gilded frame. Dated 1953. The picture shows Mary McLeod Bethune standing with her left hand holding a cane. She is wearing a navy velvet dress and one of her many awards around her neck.

Did You Know?

Meeting of group of WANDS led by Lieut. General Lovonia H. Brown (far left).

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...."