Mary McLeod Bethune, a 20th-century civil and human rights leader, founder of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla., and historic government official, was honored throughout D.C. over the past week, including the installation Wednesday of a statue of her likeness in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statutory Hall.
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