13.5" square. Features image of Bethune holding the hands of two children with inscription "I Leave You Love. I Leave You Hope. I Leave You The Challenge Of Developing Confidence In One Another. I Leave You A Thirst For Education. I Leave You The Respect For The Use Of Power. I Leave You Faith. I Leave You Racial Dignity. I Leave You A Desire To Live Harmoniously With Your Fellow Men. I Leave You Finally A Responsibility To Our Young People". Additional inscription at bottom center "1875 Mary McLeod Bethune 1955". Bethune served as an advisor to Franklin Roosevelt on the Federal Council Of Negro Affairs but is best known as an educator. The school she started in Daytona Beach, Florida, for African American girls grew from six students and eventually merged with a boys school and is now Bethune-Cookman University. This self framed plaster cast plaque has some chipping at extreme edges of the 1" black frame, worst of which is 1.5" area of loss at top right. The central gilt paint covered image is unaffected and remains striking. VG.