"Dorothy Height speaks about efforts to create a memorial to Mary McLeod Bethune"

In a press conference at the Los Angeles Hilton, Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), speaks about the need for a memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring the contributions that Black men and women have made to American life. The NCNW is working to erect a memorial of noted educator and activist, Mary McLeod Bethune, in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C., which would be the first such monument to a Black American in the nation's capital. Height details Bethune's accomplishments, the symbolic importance of a monument honoring Black Americans in the century following the Emancipation Proclamation and the difficulties, opposition, and racism NCNW has faced from the federal government in this effort.

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