Mary
McLeod Bethune was involved in the planning for postwar peace. On April 25th
1945, Bethune alongside W.E.B. Dubois and Walter White were sent to San
Francisco by President Harry S. Truman to the organizing meeting of the United
Nations as consultants. Afterwards, she released a statement that San Francisco
was building a bridge towards brotherhood, security, opportunity and peace. She
was also invited by president Dumarsais of Haiti in the celebration of the 1949
Haitian Exposition and was given the medal of honor and merit, becoming the
first woman to earn the award. She also attended the World Assembly for Moral
Re-Armament in Caux, Switzerland. This organization subscribed to Bethune’s principles
of absolute honesty, unselfishness and love.
