Statuary Hall

Mary McLeod Bethune Honored in U.S. Capitol Statuary Hall

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Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune on Wednesday became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. Florida commissioned the project after a grassroots campaign succeeded last year in removing a statue of Edmund Kirby Smith, among the last Confederate generals to surrender after the Civil War. Bethune joins John

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The public get to see the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune statue at the News-Journal Center in Daytona Beach, Monday, Oct. 12, 2021.Bethune Statue20

Mary McLeod Bethune Statue Replaces Confederate Figure

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By Christina Zdanowicz, A larger-than-life marble statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune is replacing one of a Confederate general in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall. The daughter of former slaves, Bethune became an influential Black educator and civil and women’s rights leader. She opened a boarding school for Black children in 1904, which later became Bethune-Cookman

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