Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator and civil rights leader (1875-1955)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1875
- Died
- 1955
- Works
- 4
Top works
- An annotated bibliography of Mary McLeod Bethune's Chicago defender columns, 1948-1955
- Mary McLeod Bethune papers
- Mary McLeod Bethune papers, 1923-1942
- Mary McLeod Bethune
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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Born in South Carolina to parents who had been slaves and having to work in fields at age five, she took an early interest in her own education. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mary+McLeod+Be
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1875 births1955 deaths20th-century African-American educators20th-century American educators20th-century American philanthropists20th-century American women philanthropistsActivists for African-American civil rightsAfrican-American academic administratorsAfrican-American foundersAfrican-American history of FloridaAfrican-American history of South Carolina