Mary McLeod Bethune: Difference between revisions

In 1973, Bethune was inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=18|title=Mary McLeod Bethune}} National Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved on January 11, 2008.</ref> On July 10, 1974, the anniversary of her 99th birthday, the [[Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial]], by artist [[Robert Berks]], was erected in her honor in [[Lincoln Park (Washington, D.C.)]]<ref name="npslincolnpark" /> It was the first monument honoring an African American or a woman to be installed in a public park in the District of Columbia.<ref name="npslincolnpark">{{cite web|title=Lincoln Park|url=http://www.nps.gov/cahi/historyculture/cahi_lincoln.htm|work=Capitol Hill Parks {{!}} District of Columbia|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=11 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Lincoln Park|url = http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc87.htm|website = www.nps.gov|access-date = 2016-02-12}}</ref> At least 18,000 people attended the unveiling ceremony (although one estimate claims that approximately 250,000 people attended) including [[Shirley Chisholm]], the first African-American woman elected to Congress.<ref>{{cite book | last=Kaufman | first=Polly Welts | title=National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History | year=2006 | edition=2nd | publisher=University of New Mexico Press | location=Albuquerque, New Mexico | pages=227 | isbn=0-8263-3994-8 }}</ref> The funds for the monument were raised by the [[National Council of Negro Women]].<ref name="npslincolnpark" /> The inscription on the pedestal reads "let her works praise her," (a biblical reference to Proverbs 31:31), while the side is engraved with a passage from her "Last Will and Testament":