The Mary McLeod Bethune Emancipation Memorial is located in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C. in Lincoln Park where North Carolina and Massachusetts Avenues cross and in between 13th and 11th Streets NE. It was constructed in 1973 and dedicated in 1974 by the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. while Dr. Dorothy Height was serving as it’s President. The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. raised the 150,000 dollars necessary to erect the monument over a period of 13 years. At the time of it’s construction, this monument was the first to honor an African American in Washington, D.C.

Dorothy Height, Shirley Ceasar, Coretta Scott King, Charles Rangel & Pres. Ford at the Memorial's Dedication

The sculptor for this monument was none other than the famous bronze sculptor Robert Berks. Robert Berks has created more than a dozen monuments and more than three hundred portraits in bronze. The monument is consturcted out of bronze on a base made out of aggregate concrete and containing bronze plaques. The sculpture measures 10 ft. (height) x 15.5 ft. (length) x 9 ft. (width) and the base measures 6 ft. (height) x 25 ft. (length) x 20 ft. (width).

Mary McLeod Bethune’s Emancipation Memorial consists of Mary McLeod Bethune standing with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s cane in her right hand, a scroll in her left hand and two young African American children around her. The children’s arms are extended and Mary McLeod Bethune is giving them the scroll. This scroll represents her “Legacy of Learning” which she is passing on to the children.

The inscription on the monument comes from Mary McLeod Bethune’s Last Will and Testament. It reads as follows:

I leave you love. • I leave you hope. • I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. • I leave you a thirst for education. • I leave you a respect for the use of power. • I leave you faith. • I leave you racial dignity. • I leave you also a desire to live harmoniously with your fellow man. • I leave you finally a responsibility to our young people.

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About The Enough Project

We ran out of patience with the world’s shameful lack of progress in combating terrible horrors. We knew there were many examples of successful conflict resolution processes throughout Africa, but the lessons weren’t widely known. We found confidence in the growing number of Americans who are demanding more aggressive, more successful solutions. And we have faith that we can end genocide and crimes against humanity once and for all.

We know that people care, but many assume that the crises in Africa and elsewhere are intractable. This inaccurate perception of futility sustains the killing of thousands and destroys the hopes of a safe and secure future for millions more. With every passing minute, the slaughter continues.

ENOUGH is a project of the Center for American Progress which aims to answer questions about what is really happening and offer a clear path to sustainable solutions. We were co-founded by CAP and the International Crisis Group in early 2007, setting out to establish a new paradigm for action.

We use in-depth knowledge to create clear, viable policy recommendations, and engage activists to apply pressure on the perpetrators and well-meaning governments whose own inertia prevents them from taking the steps necessary to stop genocide and crimes against humanity.

We shine a spotlight on policies that work. We aim to change the international conversation by demonstrating that progress is possible, and that rhetoric is meaningless without resolute, committed action. We are focusing currently on the situations in Congo, northern Uganda, Darfur, southern Sudan and the spillover violence in Chad.

We aim for real change to close the book on these horrible recurring chapters of human history.

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Also on May 24th the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement will have their 19th annual festival at West End Park (Atlanta, GA) starting at 12:00pm to celebrate the life of Malcolm X. For more information you can visit them online at: http://www.malcolmxfestival.com.

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Favorite Malcolm X Quotes

1. You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

2. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.

3. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

4. I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.

5. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 ‘Missing’ Chapters from His Autobiography (Transcript)

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For those that live in the Metropolitan Atlanta area Let Us Make Man, an organization whose mission is to use effective skills trainings to foster hope, strengthening and empowering the black man to resume his role in the restoration, salvation and liberation of our community, is having an event on Monday April 21st, 2008. The event will consist of a discussion that’s theme will be: “Was Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Wrong: An examination of Black Liberation Theology, Politics and Race in America.” The event will be at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) Chapel at 700 M.L. King Jr. Drive. The panelists will include Rev. Dr. Aaron Parker, Professor of Religion- Morehouse College; Rev. Timothy McDonald, Pastor First Iconium Baptist Church; Rev. Dr. Maisha Handy, Professor of Christian Education, ITC; Rev. Dr. Mark Lomax, Pastor First African Presbyterian Church; Rev. Derrick Rice, Pastor Sankofa United Church of Christ. The event is sponsored by: ITC Student Christian League, Let Us Make Man, Sankofa United Church of Christ, Davis-Bozeman Law Firm, The African American Lectionary Project. For more information please call 1.877.538.1626. The doors open at 6:00pm and the event starts at 7:00pm!

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