The Extraordinary Life Of Mary McLeod Bethune, The First Black Woman To Lead A Federal Agency
A child of former slaves, Mary McLeod Bethune achieved the near-impossible when she became an advisor to five different U.S. Presidents in the Jim Crow era. In 1929 , the poet Langston Hughes and the educator Mary McLeod Bethune travel from Florida to New York City together . Bethune did n’t worry about happen hotels and restaurants that would assume her and Hughes in the Jim Crow South . Instead of search out unintegrated accommodations , she visit on a wide electronic connection of supporters ....