Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Wright, Robert Brian
Author's Email Address	rbwrig@yahoo.com
URN	etd-050799-140251
Title	The Idealistic Realist: Mary McLeod Bethune, The National Council of Negro Women and the National Youth Administration
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	History
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Farrar, Hayward Committee Chair Jones, Kathleen W. Committee Member Rosenburg, R. B. Committee Member
Keywords	Mary McLeod Bethune National Youth Administration Nation Council of Negro Women Division of Negro Affairs
Date of Defense	1999-04-27
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The Idealistic Realist: Mary McLeod Bethune, The National Council of Negro Women and The National Youth Administration. Robert Brian Wright (Abstract) The 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 otherwords, 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.
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