Important Black African American Mary McLeod Bethune Painting Harlem Renaissance

Description: MARY JANE MCLEOD BETHUNE (1875-1955) The artist pays tribute in this work to the great Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune.Bethune paved a way for many, and especially Black women, and left a legacy of empowerment with anyone she met. Her last words were a dedication to her ongoing legacy: “I leave you love… I leave you hope… I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another…Collaged into this painting are her words;I leave you: Hope, Love, Faith, Challenge, Bethune Cookman College & 1318 National Council Negro Women (which was the original address 1318 Vermont Avenue NW Washington, DC 20005, now a national historical site). Signed lower right, F. Wilson, secured in it's original frame. Framed: 25 1/2" X 29"Unframed: 20 1/2" X 24" This piece will be shipped USPS Priority Mail insured with a tracking number. Local pickup is ok or delivery within a 50 mile radius of 90405 can be arranged for a fee. Can be shipped without frame as well. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955[1]) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided for a myriad of African-American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division.She started a private school for African-American students which later became Bethune-Cookman University. She was the sole African American woman officially a part of the US delegation that created the United Nations charter,[2] and she held a leadership position for the American Women's Voluntary Services founded by Alice Throckmorton McLean.[2] Bethune wrote prolifically, publishing in several periodicals from 1924 to 1955.After working on the presidential campaign for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, she was appointed as a national advisor and worked with Roosevelt to create the Federal Council on Colored Affairs, also known as the Black Cabinet.[3] Honors include the designation of her home in Daytona Beach as a National Historic Landmark[4] and a 1974 statue as "the first monument to honor an African American and a woman in a public park in Washington, D.C."[5] She was called the "First Lady of Negro America" by Ebony magazine in April 1949. National Association of Colored WomenIn 1896, the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) was formed to promote the needs of Black women. Bethune served as the Florida chapter president of the NACW from 1917 to 1925. She worked to register Black voters, which was resisted by White society and had been made almost impossible by various obstacles in Florida law and practices controlled by White administrators. She was threatened by members of the resurgent Ku Klux Klan in those years.[21] Bethune also served as the president of the Southeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs from 1920 to 1925, which worked to improve opportunities for Black women.She was elected national president of the NACW in 1924. While the organization struggled to raise funds for regular operations, Bethune envisioned acquiring a headquarters and hiring a professional executive secretary; she implemented this when NACW bought a property at 1318 Vermont Avenue in Washington, D.C.[45]Gaining a national reputation, in 1928, Bethune was invited to attend the Child Welfare Conference called by Republican President Calvin Coolidge. In 1930 President Herbert Hoover appointed her to the White House Conference on Child Health.[46]National Council of Negro WomenIn 1935 Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) in New York City, bringing together representatives of 28 different organizations to work to improve the lives of Black women and their communities.[3] Bethune said of the council:It is our pledge to make a lasting contribution to all that is finest and best in America, to cherish and enrich her heritage of freedom and progress by working for the integration of all her people regardless of race, creed, or national origin, into her spiritual, social, cultural, civic, and economic life, and thus aid her to achieve the glorious destiny of a true and unfettered democracy.[49]In 1938, the NCNW hosted the White House Conference on Negro Women and Children, demonstrating the importance of Black women in democratic roles. During World War II, the NCNW gained approval for Black women to be commissioned as officers in the Women's Army Corps. Bethune also served as a political appointee and the Special Assistant to the Secretary of War during the war.[21]In the 1990s, the headquarters for the National Council for Negro Women moved to Pennsylvania Avenue, centrally located between the White House and the U.S. Capitol. The former headquarters, where Bethune also lived at one time, has been designated as a National Historic Site.Wikipedia

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