Mary prodject.
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- Mary Jane Mcleod Bethune became one of the most important black educaters, civil and women's rights leader and government.
- Mary was born on July 10th, 1875 near Maysville, south Carolina and died on May 18th, 1955 at Daytona Beach at the age of 79.
- She grew up in poverty, one of the 17 children of former slaves. Every one in the family worked, many picked cotton in the fields. Mary was the only child in her family to go to school when a school for African American kids opened near by.
- She devoted her life to ensure the right to education and freedom from discrimination for African Americans.
- In her long career of public service, she became one of the earliest black female activists that helped lay the foundation to the modern civil rights movement.
- Mary was a passionate educator and presidential advisor.
- Pioneering educator and collage founder Mary Mcleod Bethune set educational standards for today's black collages.
- 1939:Director of the Division of Negro affairs for the national youth administration.
- 1936: Key organizer for the federal council on negro affairs, an advisory board to president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- !923:Established Bethune Cookman collage.
- 1935:Founded the National council of new negro women
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