Hine’s (2002) biography wrote the following: In 1935 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Bethune its highest honor, the Spingarn Medal. She received honorary degrees from ten universities, the Medal of Honor and Merit from Haiti (1949), and the Star of Africa Award from Liberia (1952). (para. 2). Once Mary had passed, the National Council of Negro Women urged the federal government to officially dedicate the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Statue at Lincoln Park in southeastern Washington, D.C., to her on July 10, 1974 (Hine, 2000). Today the Bethune-Cookman College still lives on and Mary herself is buried on school grounds, which continues to educate the nation’s African-American leaders (“National Women's History Museum.” n.d.). Mary McLeod Bethune is a reminder to everyone that anything is possible if you are passionate and apply your mind to it. As Mary Jane McLeod Bethune once said, “I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial
Hine’s (2002) biography wrote the following: In 1935 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Bethune its highest honor, the Spingarn Medal. She received honorary degrees from ten universities, the Medal of Honor and Merit from Haiti (1949), and the Star of Africa Award from Liberia (1952). (para. 2). Once Mary had passed, the National Council of Negro Women urged the federal government to officially dedicate the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Statue at Lincoln Park in southeastern Washington, D.C., to her on July 10, 1974 (Hine, 2000). Today the Bethune-Cookman College still lives on and Mary herself is buried on school grounds, which continues to educate the nation’s African-American leaders (“National Women's History Museum.” n.d.). Mary McLeod Bethune is a reminder to everyone that anything is possible if you are passionate and apply your mind to it. As Mary Jane McLeod Bethune once said, “I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial