Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Maps
NPS drawing by Kenneth Chandler.
Map showing the location of the Council House on Vermont Avenue NW below Logan Circle.
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...."