The Detroit Tribune

Nationwide
Tag Day
For Bethune Memorial

WASHINGTON - The people of the United States were called upon to participate in a nationwide Tag Day on September 22, to help fulfill the obligation placed upon the National Council of Negro Women designated within the legislation to raise through public solicitation the funds to erect the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial on public land.

The President of the United States has signed into law a Joint Resolution passed by the 86th Congress authorizing the National Council of Negro Women to erect on public land in the Nation's Capital, the first memorial to an American Negro - Mary McLeod Bethune.

The monument is to be placed in Lincoln Park where stands the Emancipation Group - Abraham Lincoln and the slave with broken chains. Mary McLeod Bethune, born of slave parents, rose to break the chains of ignorance through her efforts as a great educator, is symbolic of the progress and contributions of the Negro over a Century of Freedom.

On September 22, the Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Interdenominational Church Ushers Union, Mrs. Alma Cooper Hawkins, President; the Washington Council, Mrs. Marie N. Jones, President and the Young Adults Council, Miss Lauria Carter, President, solicited contributions at the Emancipation Celebration.