Mary McLeod Bethune visits the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA in July 1943

ID: 3940 ~ Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Employment - Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune visits the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA in July 1943
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…