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Mary McLeod Bethune, the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ sought to unify African diaspora
When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site – the D.C. home of the woman who founded Bethune-Cookman University – I didn’t see a strong connection between the college founder’s …