So you know who Rosa Parks is...

You probably know Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, even though the law in Montgomery, Alabama, required it in 1955. An experienced civil rights activist, Parks held the post of secretary in the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at the time of her arrest. The incident led to both the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the lawsuit in which the US Supreme Court overturned the Montgomery segregation ordinance. To find out more details about Rosa Parks and her work, you can visit the National Women's History Museum website.

...but do you also know Mary McLeod Bethune?

Mary McLeod Bethune led the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs in 1924, and founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935. Over her long career as a women's and civil rights activist, Bethune organized voter registration drives, established a college and owned several businesses. In 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt named Bethune Director of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Administration. Following World War Two, President Harry Truman appointed her as the only woman of color to the founding conference of the United Nations. Learn more about Mary McLeod Bethune from the National Women's History Museum website.