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Mary McLeod Bethune First Day Cover

Item Number
162
Estimated Value
2 USD
Sold
6 USD to mcfaddenmh
Number of Bids
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Item Description

Mary McLeod Bethune First Day Cover

On International Women's Day 1987.the Santa Rosa Post Office in honor of the first National Women's History Month and the recently issued Black American stamps series issued this First Day Covers using the recenting issued Mary McLeod Bethune stamp.

Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
Educator, Presidential Advisor
In 1904, Bethune opened a school for black girls in Daytona Beach that became Bethune-Cookman College in 1929. She was its president until 1942. In 1935, she founded the National Council of Negro Women and was its president until 1949. From 1936 to 1944, Bethune served as advisor to President Roosevelt on minority affairs. She was vice-president of NAACP from 1940 to 1955. In 1945, she attended the organizing conference of the United Nations.

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