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M4 Sunday, December 15, 1991 DIXIE LIVING The Atlanta Journal The Atlanta Constitution ft ru: i i i rri 1 pwj I i Park sites related to black history Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, Tuskegee, Ala. Original college buildings built by students, Booker T. Washington home, George Washington Carver Museum. Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Washington, D.C. 19th-century civil rights leader's home from 1877 to 1895.

Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta Birthplace, church and grave site of civil rights leader; portions of Sweet Auburn area. Boston African-American National Historic Site, Boston Park and 15 pre-Civil War black history structures, including African-American Meeting House and Abiel Smith School. Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, Richmond, Va.

Rowhouse home of daughter of ex-slave who became bank president and leading figure in Richmond's black community. George Washington Carver National Monument, Diamond, Mo. Birthplace and childhood home of famous black agronomist. Booker T. Washington National Monument, Roanoke, Va.

Birthplace and early childhood home of black leader and educator. Source: National Park Service MARY McLEOD BETHUNE MUSEUMSpecial Mary McLeod Bethune dedicates the National Council of Negro Women headquarters in .1943. The Vermont Avenue house, built in 1875, is set to become a national historic site. Bethune: On FDR's 'black cabinet' FILE A statue of Booker T. Washington pulling back "The Veil of Ignorance" stands at Tuskegee Institute.

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When the Washington house was heavily damaged by fire a decade later, the Council of Negro Women moved to larger quarters on Connecticut Avenue. The Council House remained boarded up until 1976, when Sen. John Warner (D-Va.) helped get an appropriation to renovate the building for the nation's Bicentennial. Dr. Collier-Thomas arrived at the same time to begin the Bethune Museum and to turn the two-story carriage house in the rear into the National Archives for Black Women's History.

In 1982, after a long lobbying campaign, Congress designated the house a national historic site, allowing the museum to apply for annual federal operating grants. The Reagan administration was not interested in adding property to the parks system, Dr. Collier-Thomas said, and argued that a Lincoln Park bronze statue of Mrs. Bethune, unveiled in 1974, was enough of a memorial. The Park Service now supports including the Bethune House in its system.

And in August, Mr. Bush signed legislation drafted by Mr. Lewis calling for a three-year study of what historic sites of importance to African-American history might be added to the park system. room of the Bethune House is a p0fo of a group of young women ilipkle-length dresses grinding sijgar cane at the school in its early years. Mrs.

Bethune believed strongly in the Bible and ill the lessons of hard work. j.The world around us really belongs to youth, for youth will take over its future management," she wrote near the end of her life. "Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world." Though her home and heart remained on the Bethune-Cook-nian campus, Mrs. Bethune's horizons were expanding by the middle of the Depression and arrival of the New Deal. In 1935, at age 60, she founded' the National Council of Negro Women to coordinate the efforts of.

women's clubs across the pick the first candidates for officers training in the Women's Army Corps. "Bethune was a power broker with few equals," Dr. Collier-Thomas said. "She was a forceful woman who didn't take no for an answer. She learned the machinations of politics." Along the tall plaster walls of the house in which she lived until 1950 are photos of the building's dedication, of Mrs.

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I uninhibited than I am now. Pat and I were both pursuing simultaneous radical endeavors, and the national media was attracted eftf have been in the public do-KfcWln for 30 years." JI-Judee Sanders, who lives in by both of them." FAIRFIELD POLY-FIL BIG20oz. 100 Polyester FILLER Judge Sanders was nearby while a portion of "The Prince of Tides" was being filmed in Beaufort, S.C., but he never made it to the set. Mr. Conroy, however, Judge Alexander Sanders was the source of many of the anecdotes in Pat Conroy's "The Prince of Tides." roy's spin on things," the judge said.

Atlanta author Anne Rivers Siddons also credits Judge Sanders with providing some of the yarns that appeared in her novel "Peachtree Road." A Columbia native, Judge Sanders earned a law degree from the University of South Carolina. For 20 years he practiced law, taught law and served in the Legislature. In 1983, he was appointed chief justice. As for Mr. Conroy, Judge Sanders regards him with great affection.

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