Civil rights leader, presidential advisor and education pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune, whose illustrious life included ties to Chicago, on Wednesday, July 13, became the first Black person to be honored with a statue at the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. Sixty-seven years after her death, Bethune, who founded the Historically Black Colleges and … Mary McLeod Bethune becomes first Black honored in Statuary Hall Read More »
