Mary Mcleod Bethune's Official Personnel Folder
Official Personnel Folders were compiled by the agencies for whom an individual worked. The example shown below is from the Official Personnel Folder of Mary McLeod Bethune, compiled by the Federal Security Agency. Bethune was the first African American woman appointed by a President (Franklin D. Roosevelt) to serve as a National Advisor on Colored Affairs.
A page from Mary McLeod Bethune's Official Personnel Folder. National Archives Identifier: 158329664.
This record can be found in Record Group 146: Records of the U.S. Civil Service Commission. This record group is only partially available online. We encourage researchers to visit us onsite to explore these records and learn more about the archival collections held in the National Archives at St. Louis.