Mary McLeod Bethune

It was an autobiography of some woman by the name of Mary McLeod Bethune.

Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown 1965

Dressed in a blue velvet suit and carrying a cane, just like the woman in the portrait behind her, Taylor Marsh looks like a younger version of educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune.

Teen Actors Make Portraits Come Alive 2011

Dressed in a blue velvet suit and carrying a cane, just like the woman in the portrait behind her, Taylor Marsh looks like a younger version of educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune.

Teen Actors Make Portraits Come Alive 2011

Dressed in a blue velvet suit and carrying a cane, just like the woman in the portrait behind her, Taylor Marsh looks like a younger version of educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune.

Teen Actors Make Portraits Come Alive 2011

Height began her career with another civil rights leader, educator Mary McLeod Bethune, and worked with presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama.

Appreciation: Civil rights matriarch fought racism with dignity Hamil R. Harris 2010

Mary McLeod Bethune, president of the Harlem YWCA, was impressed by Ms. Height's poise and style in greeting the president's wife, and she promptly offered her a job.

Dorothy I. Height, founding matriarch of U.S. civil rights movement, dies at 98 2010

Mary McLeod Bethune, president of the Harlem YWCA, was impressed by Ms. Height's poise and style in greeting the president's wife, and she promptly offered her a job.

Dorothy I. Height, founding matriarch of U.S. civil rights movement, dies at 98 2010

Her connection to the First Lady was due to escorting Mrs. Roosevelt to meetings with Mary McLeod Bethune, who had recruited Height the year prior to join the National Council on Negro Women.

Mike Green: Dorothy Height: Extraordinary American Heroine 2010

Mary McLeod Bethune, president of the Harlem YWCA, was impressed by Ms. Height's poise and style in greeting the president's wife, and she promptly offered her a job.

Dorothy I. Height, founding matriarch of U.S. civil rights movement, dies at 98 Bart Barnes 2010

Dr. Height played crucial roles in the women's and civil rights movements, having toiled with the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mary McLeod Bethune to forge steady progress for people whose rights were denied.

Statements on Dorothy I. Height's death 2010