Black Women’s History Archive moving to new location

According to the National Park Service, the National Archives for Black Women’s History is going to be relocating due to inadequate conditions to suitably house the archives, which were found in a recent evaluation of the site. Currently housed at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House on Vermont Avenue in northeast Washington, the residence was the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women and the last home of the educator and civil rights leader in Washington. The archives will be moved to the Park Service’s Museum Resource Center in Landover, Maryland, which houses over five million documents and museum objects, already houses some material from the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House collections. The archives will be closing February 18 and will reopen March 9.