The Idealistic Realist: Mary McLeod Bethune, The National Council of Negro Women and the National Youth Administration

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dc.contributor.authorWright, Robert Brianen
dc.contributor.committeechairFarrar, Haywarden
dc.contributor.committeememberRosenburg, R. B.en
dc.contributor.committeememberJones, Kathleen W.en
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:35:35Zen
dc.date.adate1999-05-13en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:35:35Zen
dc.date.issued1999-04-27en
dc.date.rdate2000-05-13en
dc.date.sdate1999-05-07en
dc.description.abstractThe available literature on Mary Mcleod Bethune is very similar. Though it may look at various aspects of her life, it does so on the same plane. It gives an overview. In other words, it skims over her life, focusing only on the very narrow - and positive - aspects. She was the founder and president of a black college. She was head of a federal agency during the New Deal. She was head of a million member black women's organization. But what do these "highlightings" tell of Bethune and the world in which she worked? The point of this paper is to vary a little from the present literature. By taking a closer look at two of Bethune's organizations: the National Council of Negro Women and the Nation Youth Administration's Division of Negro Affairs, perhaps we can tell a little more of who Bethune really was and how important her work was to her. By "humanizing" Bethune, we may get a better understanding of what it meant to be a minority in a racist nation during a trying time.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-050799-140251en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-050799-140251/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32349en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartthesis3.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMary McLeod Bethuneen
dc.subjectNational Youth Administrationen
dc.subjectNation Council of Negro Womenen
dc.subjectDivision of Negro Affairsen
dc.titleThe Idealistic Realist: Mary McLeod Bethune, The National Council of Negro Women and the National Youth Administrationen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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