From far left, civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune with 1946 National Council of Negro Women honorees: Virginia Durr, Lois M. Jones, Lt. Col. Charity Adams, Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas (D-California), Maida Springer, Agnes Meyer, Pauli Murray, Arenia Mallory, Ambassador Florence Jaffray Harriman, Eslanda Goode Robeson. (Star Staff Photo/Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection ©Washington Post)
Star Staff Photo/Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection ©Washington Post