Mary McLeod Bethune

Building a Better World, Essays and Selected Documents

By: Audrey Thomas McCluskey (Editor), Elaine M. Smith (Editor), Mary McLeod Bethune

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Paperback | 12 November 2001

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Once hailed as the most influential black women in the United States, Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) began her public career as a teacher in rural Florida, rising to an appointment in the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, where she assumed the role of advocate for a wide range of black interests. This volume explores the multi-faceted career of this important black leader in her roles as stateswoman, politician, educational leader, and social visionary. It offers a unique combination of original documentary sources and analysis of Bethune's life and work. The editors have selected more than seventy documents spanning fifty-three years of the public life of this remarkable woman. Included are letters, memoranda, position papers, newspaper columns, interviews, speeches, and minutes of meetings.

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Pioneer African American educator, founder of Bethune--Cookman College, founder of national women's organizations, and an adviser to Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt during the New Deal, Mary McLeod Bethune is justifiably famous but often overlooked in the litany of contributors to African American development. This book is less biography and more a documentary testament to the many and diverse contributions of Bethune. Beginning with a biographical essay, the book brings together essays and letters on education and the founding of Bethune--Cookman, on black women and national organizations, the role of Mary McLeod Bethune in the New Deal, and her role in the UN and the post--war Civil Rights Movement. Each section has a brief interpretive section that connects Bethune's career and contributions to those of others, such as Booker T. Washington or Charles S. Johnson. There is also a detailed biographical time line and photographs. From this documentary portrait, a talented and multifaceted contributor to the black experience in the 20th--century US emerges. Much is owed to Bethune, and readers gain an appreciation of that debt. The book is grounded in secondary literature, including full--length biographies of the subject. Upper--division undergraduates and above.

--T. F. Armstrong "Choice"

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
In Pursuit of Unalienable Rights: Mary McLeod Bethune in Historical Perspective	p. 1875
Self-Revelations: "Like Bruises on an Oyster"	p. 1940
Educational Leadership: "The Unfolding of My Soul	p. 1002
Woman Activism: "We Are Being Heard!"	p. 1917
Politics and Public Issues: Stateswoman in Washington	p. 1936
The Last Years: "Building a Better World"	p. 1951
Milestones: A Selected Chronology
Sources
Bibliography
Index
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Building a Better World, Essays and Selected Documents

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