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Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic SiteNCNW Members at a meeting
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Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
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Map to the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS
NPS drawing by Kenneth Chandler.
Map showing the location of the Council House on Vermont Avenue NW below Logan Circle.
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: July 25, 2006 at 00:29 EST