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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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This 15 video collection explores the lives of influential African Americans who have helped paved the future in a way no other would have done. Those featured includes Ida B. Wells, Ralph Ellison, and Mary McLeod Bethune.
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2014
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English
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'Kelley captures Mary McLeod Bethune's trials and triumphs from an impoverished childhood in the cotton fields of South Carolina to her ascendancy as Black America's most influential leader. With a dollar and fifty cents, she starts a school for Black girls, now a reputable university. She founds and leads the National Council of Negro Women and becomes the first Black woman to hold a federal appointment as Director of the Division of Negro Affairs...
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2023
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English
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"A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist...
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2024.
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" When Mary MacLeod Bethune died, many of the tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the "Mount Rushmore" of Black American achievement. Indeed, Bethune is the only Black American whose statue stands in the rotunda of the U.S. Capital, and yet for most Americans, she remains a marble figure from the dim past. Now, seventy years later, Noliwe Rooks turns Bethune from stone to flesh, showing her to have been...
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