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    Mary McLeod Bethune Council House

    National Historic Site DC

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March 08, 2013
If this Hat Could Talk Remembering - Dr. Dorothy Irene Height
Junior Ranger Program: “If this Hat Could Talk” Remembering - Dr. Dorothy Irene Height

February 05, 2013
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS Celebrates Black History Month
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS Celebrates Black History Month

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...."