Mary McLeod Bethune was born on July 10th 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina.
She was the child of former slaves and graduated from Scotia Seminary for Girls in 1893 with a strong belief that racial advancement could only be acheived with educatiions she founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute in 1904.
This went onto become Bethune-Cookman College.
She became the president of the National Association of Colored Women and founded the National Council of Negro Women.
She was an acclaimed educator and activist and certainly did more for her people than she is sometimes recognised for.
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She died in 1955.
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