Pushing the Limits of the Color Line: Mary McLeod Bethune & the New Deal (A Passion for Social Equality)

by G.Y. Williams

"Unless the people have vision, they perish," speaking to an interracial audience in 1935, Mary McLeod Bethune challenged them to "make way for social and political justice." This political biography examines Bethune's activist leadership from the early 1900s to the New Deal era. An African-American educator born in the South in 1875, Bethune's educational and social activism was unique. As founding president of Bethune-Cookman College, she also served...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1484968735
• ISBN13: 9781484968734
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"