Summary: "When Mary McLeod was a girl in rural South Carolina, no school would accept her as a student, because she was black. But one day, a woman from the city came to open a mission school. "It changed my life overnight," Mary later wrote. Her lifelong goal was to improve the quality of life for black Americans. In the face of constant opposition, she showed that change was possible." Book jacket.
Presents biographies of influential Christians from black history who worked courageously to spread the Gospel and effect social change"--Provided by publisher.
From abstract: "As he reads about Mary McLeod Bethune, a boy learns to hold onto his dream of going to college and works to make it happen, despite the teasing of his friends."
Founder of Bethune-Cookman College, Mary McLeod Bethune was also an advisor to President Roosevelt while she headed the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration. Give your readers a compelling narrative they will not soon forget.
This page contains information about books that are either written by, or about, Mary Mcleod Bethune. While some may be in our local library, please note that they can be found in any public or university library near you, and if you are a current Oakwoodite, the librarians can help you gain access through Inter-Library Loan..
See paper on: Certain unalienable rights / Mary McLeod Bethune
Summary: "Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous and obscure. Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration; from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop on to the Joshua generation. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single "Black Experience." Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination"-- Provided by publisher.
See "Mary McLeod Bethune, educator -- A teacher's mission : Elma Lewis"
From Summary: Throughout the world, black women have played historically significant parts in the struggle for racial justice and equality. Whether lobbying against slavery or challenging segregation and discrimination, many prominent black women have recognized that the fight for racial equality is deeply entwined with the fight for sexual equality. The selections in this volume profile some of history's most influential black women activists, from abolitionists Maria Stewart and Sojourner Truth through Rosa Parks and Winnie Mandela.
According to Carol Bleezer, in the founding editor's preface, "The goal of the series is to enable women to speak for themselves providing readers with a rarely opened window into southern society before, during, and after the American Civil War and into the twentieth century."
Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black women for visible and expanding public leadership roles. Few have been as effective in the development of women's leadership for group advancement. Despite her accomplishments, the means, techniques, and actions Bethune employed in fighting for equality have been widely misinterpreted. Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism seeks to remedy the misconceptions surrounding this important political figure. Joyce A. Hanson shows that the choices Bethune made often appear contradictory, unless one understands that she was a transitional figure with one foot in the nineteenth century and the other in the twentieth.
Eleanor Roosevelt’s friendship with the Black activist and educator Mary McLeod Bethune was one of the most influential relationships forged in Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency. The pioneering Bethune and the daring First Lady helped orchestrate a number of important policy shifts and advances in matters of race, in an administration deeply averse to taking risks where race was concerned. Over time, their bond helped create new expectations about racial justice and its connection to presidential leadership, even as women in politics were forced to play a subordinate role. Chapter 4 introduces a politically strategic, and yet deeply personal friendship, one that helped broaden the horizons of a racially proscribed New Deal era.
In Women and the Historical Enterprise in America, Julie Des Jardins explores American women's participation in the practice of history from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II, a period in which history became professionalized as an increasingly masculine field of scientific inquiry. Des Jardins shows how women nevertheless transformed the profession during these years in their roles as writers, preservationists, educators, archivists, government workers, and social activists.
Riché Richardson examines how five iconic black women—Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé—defy racial stereotypes and construct new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States.
