A larger-than-life marble statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune is replacing one of a Confederate general in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall.
The daughter of former slaves, Bethune became an influential Black educator and civil and women's rights leader. She opened a boarding school for Black children in 1904, which later became Bethune-Cookman University.Bethune will make history when she becomes the first African American to have a state-commissioned statue in Statuary Hall, according to a press release from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The governor requested the replacement of the General Edmund Kirby Smith statue in 2019.
She was the 15th child of former slaves. In 1904, she created Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls. Bethune's impact left a mark in Florida but also on Black people and women at large. Her life's work is an inspiration to Nancy Lohman, board president of the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Statuary Fund, Inc."Dr. Bethune was an amazing trailblazer," Lohman told CNN."She fought for African American rights, women's rights.
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