Mayesville is a town in Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 731 at the 2010 census, this was a decline from 1,001 in 2000. It is included in the Sumter, South Carolina Met
Mary McLeod Bethune was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and proceeded to establish
Mayesville, South Carolina
…District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Kineen Hotel is one of the more significant historic buildings still standing. Mary McLeod Bethune - educator and civil rights activist James McBride Dabbs - author…
1949 portrait
The cabin in Mayesville, South Carolina, where Mary Jane McLeod was born
Bethune with girls from her Daytona school, c. 1905
Bethune and Marian Anderson, celebrated contralto, at the launching of the SS Booker T. Washington