Florida Frontiers TV - Mary McLeod Bethune Goes to Washington
Episode Number
48
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Mary McLeod Bethune was a larger-than-life educator and activist whose legacy is now remembered with an eleven-foot tall, 6,000-pound statue carved by Nilda Comas. She used the last piece of statuary marble taken from the same Italian quarry used by Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The statue will represent Florida in the US Capitol building.
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Rossetter House Foundation
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