Mary McLeod Bethune Beach Park, 6656 S. Atlantic Ave., New Smyrna Beach. Bethune Beach, which is 3.5 miles south of New Smyrna Beach and one mile north of the Apollo Beach entrance to Canaveral ...

Dorothy Height, whom President Barack Obama called “the godmother of the civil rights movement,” is photographed in front of a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune, who served as her mentor and whose ...

She said, “Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, my mother and you—you are the greatest.” It still brings me to te—. [Her eyes tear up.] We walked down to the bottom of the hill.