Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial -- Lincoln Park NE Washington (DC) July 2021 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial -- Lincoln Park NE Washington (DC) July 2021 / Ron Cogswell
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| 説明 | Per Wikipedia:Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (1875 – 1955) was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for myriad African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division.She also was appointed as a national adviser to president Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom she worked with to create the Federal Council on colored Affairs, also known as the Black Cabinet. She is well known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach (FL); it later continued to develop as Bethune-Cookman University. Bethune was the sole African American woman officially a part of the US delegation that created the United Nations charter in 1945, and she held a leadership position for the American Women's Voluntary Services founded by Alice Throckmorton McLean.For her lifetime of activism, she was deemed "acknowledged First Lady of Negro America" by Ebony magazine in July 1949 and was known by the Black Press as the "Female Booker T. Washington". She was known as "The First Lady of The Struggle" because of her commitment to gain better lives for African Americans.Honors include designation of her home in Daytona Beach as a National Historic Landmark, her house in Washington (DC) as a National Historic Site, and the installation of a memorial sculpture of her in Lincoln Park in NE Washington (DC). On July 10, 1974, the anniversary of her 99th birthday, the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial, by artist Robert Berks, was erected in her honor in Lincoln Park (NE Washington, DC). It was the first monument honoring an African American or a woman to be installed in a public park in the Nation's Capitol. At least 18,000 people attended the unveiling ceremony (although one estimate claims that approximately 250,000 people attended) including Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress. The funds for the monument were raised by the National Council of Negro Women. The inscription on the pedestal reads "let her works praise her" (a biblical reference to Proverbs 31:31), while the side is engraved with a passage from her "Last Will and Testament":I leave you to love. I leave you to hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you a thirst for education. I leave you a respect for the use of power. I leave your faith. I leave you racial dignity. I leave you a desire to live harmoniously with your fellow men. I leave you a responsibility to our young people.DSC1462 |
| 撮影日 | 2021-07-28 07:58:12 |
| 撮影者 | Ron Cogswell , Arlington, Virginia, USA |
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| 撮影地 | The Houpyard, Washington, D.C., United States 地図 |