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The program included “A Tribute to Mary McLeod Bethune and Women Pioneers” and was presented by a representative of the archives and museum department, it also included a printed photographic memorial to Mary McLeod Bethune.
In commemoration of this 'century of freedom,' the National Council of Negro Women has voted unanimously to undertake in 1963 the project of memorializing their founder, the late Mary McLeod Bethune.
The Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial was created by Boston artist Robert Berks. It was paid for with $400,000 in private donations to the National Council of Negro Women (Orlando Sentinel, 1974).
Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune representing the State of Florida in National Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol, unveiled and dedicated on July 13, 2022. Sculpted by Nilda Comas, MFA, NSS, Master Sculptor . Mary McLeod Bethune Statuary Fund, Inc. The Legacy
Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial is a bronze statue honoring educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune, by Robert Berks. [1] The monument is the first statue erected on public land in Washington, D.C. to honor an African American and a woman.
On July 10, 1974, the anniversary of her 99th birthday, the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial, by artist Robert Berks, was erected in her honor in Lincoln Park (Washington, D.C.). [79] It was the first monument honoring an African American or a woman to be installed in a public park in the District of Columbia.
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The Bethune Memorial, in Washington, DC's Lincoln Park, was erected to celebrate the life and achievements of civil rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune. When it was dedicated in 1974 it became the first monument to an African American, and the first to a woman, on federal land in the capital.
