November 30, 2009
American anthropologist grad. Barnard, 1923, Ph.D. Columbia, 1929. She stressed the need for anthropologists to understand the perspective of women and children.
In 1926, she became assistant curator, in 1942 associate curator, and from 1964 to 1969 she was curator of ethnology of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. After 1954 she served [...]
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November 30, 2009
A firm believer in education as a path to racial equality, Bethune focused on vocational education and social activism and became a worldwide public figure.
The founder of the National Council for Negro Women
Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator and school founder who served as an unofficial advisor on African-American issues to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt [...]
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