Photo: Getty Images Mary McLeod Bethune, a civil rights leader and pioneer in education, became the first Black American to be honored with a state statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall on Wednesday (July 13), per NBC News. From 1875 to 1955 when she passed, Bethune helped lay the groundwork for the civil rights … Continued
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