UNCF
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The United Negro College Fund is an American philanthropic organization that funds scholarships for Black students and general scholarship funds for 37 private historically black colleges and universi
United Negro College Fund headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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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
UNCF
…black colleges and universities. UNCF was incorporated on April 25, 1944, by Frederick D. Patterson (then president of what became Tuskegee University), Mary McLeod Bethune, and others. UNCF is headquartered at 1805 7th Street, NW in Washington, D.C. In 2005, UNCF supported approximately 65,000 students at over 900 colleges…
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