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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November 30, 2009
American painter and printmaker who was part of the group of Impressionists working in and around Paris. She took as her subjects almost exclusively women and children.
Cassatt was the daughter of a banker and lived in Europe for five years as a young girl. She was tutored privately in art in Philadelphia and attended the [...]
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