This photo shows Mary McLeod Bethune standing in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., during her tenure as Special Advisor on Minority Affairs to the Roosevelt Administration. Bethune was born in Mayesville, South Carolina, on July 10, 1875. She attended the Presbyterian Mission School in Mayesville; the Scotia Seminary in Concord, New Hampshire; and Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. She taught at Haines Institute in Georgia, and established a Home for Delinquent Colored Girls in Florida. In 1904 she founded the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls (now Bethune-Cookman College), and served as president there from 1904-1942 and 1946-1947. She founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and was director of the Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration 0935-1943). She was also an honorary general in the Women's Army for National Defense (WANDS).