Mary McLeod Bethune is in this group photo (center, front row) of the 1938 White House Conference of National Women’s Councils.

ID: 3816 ~ Source: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Political Empowerment - National Council of Negro Women: 633 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Political Empowerment - National Council of Negro Women: 633 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Civil Rights Tour: Political Empowerment - National Council of Negro Women: 633 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

By DC Historic Preservation Office

The National Council of Negro Women's relocation of its headquarters in 1995 to Pennsylvania Avenue was fitting for a group that has been so enormously influential in advancing the economic well-being…