MAYESVILLE, S.C. — Sumter County celebrated one of its own Friday, Mary McLeod Bethune, in the town of Mayesville. Her statue will be the first African American woman to be represented in the National ...

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SUMTER — Erica Goza grew up on a row crop farm in nearby Mayesville — a small SC town with a population that doesn’t break 1,000. The 1930s era farm was worked by her grandmother first, then her ...

A striking marble statue of trailblazing educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune stopped in her Sumter County hometown Friday on its way to Washington, D.C. The 11-foot, 3-ton statute ...

DAYTONA BEACH — The Washington, D.C., – bound Mary McLeod Bethune statue made a brief layover in Bethune's South Carolina hometown Friday for a ceremony that included at least one of the revered civil ...