Known as the “Council House,” 1318 Vermont Avenue served as both the private residence of Mary McLeod Bethune, and headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women from 1943 to 1966.

ID: 3939 ~ Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Buildings Survey
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Employment - Mary McLeod Bethune
Known as the “Council House,” 1318 Vermont Avenue served as both the private residence of Mary McLeod Bethune, and headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women from 1943 to 1966.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Employment - Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune began traveling to D.C. from her native Florida after her election as president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) in 1924. After creating a school for African American girls in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1905 and…