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Mary Mcleod Bethune Building a Better World, Essays and Selected Documents

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ISBN-10: 025321503X

ISBN-13: 9780253215031

Edition: 2001

Authors: Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith

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Once hailed as the most influential black women in the United States, Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) began her public career as a teacher in rural Florida, rising to an appointment in the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, where she assumed the role of advocate for a wide range of black interests. This volume explores the multi-faceted career of this important black leader in her roles as stateswoman, politician, educational leader, and social visionary. It offers a unique combination of original documentary sources and analysis of Bethune's life and work. The editors have selected more than seventy documents spanning fifty-three years of the public life of this remarkable…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/12/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Audrey Thomas McCluskey is Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and Director of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University. She is editor of Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994--2004 (IUP, 2006) and co-editor (with Elaine M. Smith) of Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World (IUP, 2001). She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

AUDREY THOMAS McCLUSKEY is Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at Indiana University and has had a long association with the National Women's Studies Association. She has published widely on Bethune and other women activists and educators.ELAINE M. SMITH is on the history faculty at Alabama State University. An authority on Bethune, she provided the introductions to the Guides to the Mary McLeod Bethune Papers.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
In Pursuit of Unalienable Rights: Mary McLeod Bethune in Historical Perspective
Self-Revelations: "Like Bruises on an Oyster"
Educational Leadership: "The Unfolding of My Soul
Woman Activism: "We Are Being Heard!"
Politics and Public Issues: Stateswoman in Washington
The Last Years: "Building a Better World"
Milestones: A Selected Chronology
Sources
Bibliography
Index