Sunday, September 9, 2018

The New Deal Around DC: The Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial

Above: A memorial to Mary McLeod Bethune (1873-1955) stands at Lincoln Park in Washington, DC. Bethune was an important New Deal policymaker during the 1930s and 40s - as a member of FDR's "Black Cabinet" and as director of the National Youth Administration's Office of Negro Affairs. See her biography, as well as a summary of the National Youth Administration, on the website of the Living New Deal. Photo by Brent McKee, August 2018.

Above: Bethune was an influential civil rights and education advocate, and one of the founders of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Photo by Brent McKee, August 2018.

Above: A plaque on the Bethune Memorial. The National Council of Negro Women "was founded in 1935 by Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune..." Photo by Brent McKee, August 2018.

Above: According to the National Park Service, the monument depicts Bethune "supporting herself by a cane given to her by President [Franklin] Roosevelt." Photo by Brent McKee, August 2018.

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