Time: Mary McLeod Bethune, 1875-1955

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Booklet in the style of an issue of TIME magazine printed for the dedication ceremony of the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial on July 10, 1974.The booklet is comprised of six sheets of glossy paper folded in half and secured by two staples at the center fold to form a 24 page booklet. The pages are not numbered. The cover displays the TIME magazine logo with a black and white photograph of Mary McLeod Bethune with the dome of the United States Capitol in the background. She is seen from the shoulders up and is looking upwards towards her left side. The TIME logo and a border around the cover are printed in red ink while all of the rest of the booklet's images and text are printed in black. The words ["MARY McLEOD BETHUNE / 1875-1955"] appear underneath the magazine logo and the words ["Her legacy to her people... / and the nation.

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