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	Mary McLeod Bethune
		Mary McLeod was born in Mayesville, S.C. Her parents, Samuel and Patsy McLeod, were former slaves; Mary was the fifteenth of 17 children.
		Bethune began her career as an educator in earnest when she rented a two-story frame building in Daytona Beach, Fla., and began the difficult task of establishing a school for African American girls.
		Bethune's business activities were confined to the Central Life Insurance Company of Tampa, Fla., of which she was president for several years; the Afro-American Life Insurance Company of Jacksonville, which she served as director; and the Bethune-Volusia Beach Corporation, a recreation area and housing development she founded in 1940.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/mary_bethune.htm (866 words)

	Say It Plain - American RadioWorks
		Bethune was born to former slaves in 1875.
		Bethune was one of the first youngsters to sign up for a new mission school for fl children built near her home.
		Bethune was not only on her way to read, she was on her way to a lifelong career devoted to educating a people only a generation or two away from slavery.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/sayitplain/mmbethune.html (985 words)

	Syndicated Column -- Mary McLeod Bethune
		Mary McLeod Bethune, born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War, devoted her life to ensuring the right to education and freedom from discrimination for fl Americans.
		Mary Jane McLeod was born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina.
		Bethune served as director of the National Youth Administration's Division of Negro Affairs (1936), Vice-President of the NAACP (1940), and served on President Truman's Committee of Twelve for National Defense (1951).
	www.nahc.org /NAHC/Val/Columns/SC10-6.html (657 words)

	Mary Mcleod Bethune - MSN Encarta
		Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), American educator, born in Mayesville, South Carolina, and educated at Scotia Seminary and the Moody Bible Institute.
		Bethune held many other posts, including those of director of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Administration (1936-44) and consultant to the U.S. secretary of war in the selection of the first female officer candidates for the armed services.
		Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women and was a vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560533/Bethune_Mary_McLeod.html (208 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune
		Mary McLeod Bethune was born Mary Jane McLeod on July 19, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina to freed slaves Samuel and Patsy (McIntosh) McLeod.
		Bethune died in May, 1955 to the sorrow of the people she affected in Daytona Beach and in the nation.
		Thirty years later in 1985, Bethune was recognized as one of the most influential African American women in the country, with a postage stamp issued in her honor and a statue of her erected in a park in Washington, DC.
	volusiahistory.com /mary.htm (710 words)

	The My Hero Project - Mary McLeod Bethune
		Mary was the first of her family to attend school.
		Mary then went to the Haines Institute in Augusta, Georgia and then to the Kindell Institute in Sumter, Georgia, where she met and married Albertus Bethune.
		Her gravestone was simply marked, "Mother." In her will Mary wrote, "I leave you, finally, a responsibility to our young people." Mary Bethune is remembered for making a school that Black Americans can go to and also, for being an important influence on the president and making a difference in Black Americans' lives.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Bethune_Donegal_Springs_Elementary (1093 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune - Top 50 Most Important Floridians of the 20th Century (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in 1875 in Mayesville, S.C., the 15th daughter of former slaves, Bethune was considered exceptionally bright by her father and "different" by her mother.
		Bethune started her teaching career in 1897 at Haines Institute in Augusta, Ga. In 1898, she moved to Palatka, where she taught at the Palatka Mission School, determined to improve the working conditions of former slaves and give them the education she enjoyed.
		Bethune served as president of the college until she retired in 1942, then returned as president in 1946 to fill a vacancy left by James Colston.
	www.theledger.com /static/top50/pages/bethune.html (362 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune
		Mary was the 15th of 17 children, born July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, to parents who had been slaves.
		Mary was determined to see that their children had a school.
		Bethune became a regular visitor to the White House; President Roosevelt usually greeted her in the same way: "I'm always glad to see you, Mrs.
	hometown.aol.com /efirpo/bethune.html (663 words)

	Black History Month Biography-Mary McLeod Bethune (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The majority of them were awarded to Mary, since it was obvious she was the most willing to learn and the brightest.
		Bethune became the President of the National Association of Negro Women, and formed the Negro Women's Council.
		Bethune was buried on the campus of the Bethune-Cookman College.
	www.newton.mec.edu /Bigelow/classroom/yerardi/blackhistory04/05blackhist04sa2/05blackhist04saindex.htm (866 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune Summary
		Bethune's business activities were confined to the Central Life Insurance Company of Tampa, Fla., of which she was president for several years; the Afro-American Life Insurance Company of Jacksonville, which she served as director; and the Bethune--Volusia Beach Corporation, a recreation area and housing development she founded in 1940.
		Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875–May 18, 1955), born to former slaves a decade after the end of the American Civil War, devoted her life to ensuring the right to education and freedom from discrimination for fl Americans.
		Mary McLeod Bethune died on May 18, 1955, at the age of 79 by a massive heart attack in Daytona Beach, Florida, leaving a legacy of interracial cooperation and increased educational opportunity for fls.
	www.bookrags.com /Mary_McLeod_Bethune (3419 words)

	Mary McCloud Bethune
		Mary was sent next to Sumter, S.C. where she taught for two years at Kendall Institute before marrying Albertus Bethune in 1898.
		Mary did a little social work, but mainly she concentrated on raising her son, Albert, who was born in 1899.
		On July 10, 1974, ninety-nine years to the day after Bethune's birth, she became the first woman and the first African-American to be honored with a statue in a public park in Washington, D.C. The statue, in Lincoln Park, is a reminder of her achievements.
	www.usca.edu /aasc/bethune.htm (2168 words)

	The My Hero Project - Mary McLeod Bethune
		Mary was the first of her family to attend school.
		Mary then went to the Haines Institute in Augusta, Georgia and then to the Kindell Institute in Sumter, Georgia, where she met and married Albertus Bethune.
		Her gravestone was simply marked, "Mother." In her will Mary wrote, "I leave you, finally, a responsibility to our young people." Mary Bethune is remembered for making a school that Black Americans can go to and also, for being an important influence on the president and making a difference in Black Americans' lives.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Bethune_Donegal_Springs_Elementary (1093 words)

	Guide Introduction: Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune-Cookman College
		Mary McLeod Bethune believed fervently in the head-heart-hand educational concept that she and contemporaries knew as emphasizing Christianity, job training, and mastery of at least elementary school subjects.
		Bethune's interracial activities at home and abroad were mostly pleasure compared to her arduous NACW agenda for projecting African American women into the public policy arena.
		Bethune achieved hearings for fl concerns at the highest governmental levels, thus nurturing the principle that fls were integral to the American mosaic.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/african_american/bethune/bethune.asp (6566 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune House
		The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, a National Historic Site, was significant as a center for the development of strategies and programs which advanced the interests of African American women and the fl community.
		Mary McLeod Bethune Council House was the residence of Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), renowned educator, national political leader, and founder of the National Council of Negro Women from 1943 to 1955.
		It was at this Victorian townhouse that Mary McLeod Bethune, as the president of the National Council of Negro Women, received heads of state, government officials, and leaders from around the world.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/wash/dc62.htm (282 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
		Mary McLeod Bethune achieved her greatest national and international recognition at the Washington, DC townhouse at 1318 Vermont Avenue, NW, that is now this Historic Site.
		Mary McLeod Bethune was the 15th of 17 children of former slaves.
		Founded in 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune, the NCNW mission is to lead, develop, and advocate for women of African descent as they support their families and communities.
	www.nps.gov /mamc (268 words)

	Guide Introduction: Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune Foundation
		When Bethune added a fireproof room to her house for hundreds of document files, they were valuable potential resources for the memoir that never materialized and the investigations of researchers to come.
		While Mary Bethune's reasons for the foundation varied and did not remain constant, the worthiness of the project defied challenge because it symbolized her extraordinarily fruitful life.
		Even after Bethune resigned the BCC presidency, she retained great influence over the Board of Trustees--an influence that had permitted her to ouster one president and move in that direction with the other on the alleged grounds that they did not understand the philosophy of BCC.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/african_american/bethune/bethune1.asp (5954 words)

	The American Experience \| Eleanor Roosevelt \| People & Events \| Mary McLeod Bethune
		Mary's first ambition, after graduating from Scotia, was to be a missionary in Africa, but she turned instead toward studying at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago when offered a scholarship there.
		With the success of her school, Bethune went on to be a spokesman for her race and her gender.
		In 1933, Bethune wrote of the fl woman, "She has been quick to seize every opportunity which presented itself to come more and more into the open and strive directly for the uplift of the race and nation.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande05.html (1071 words)

	Colored Reflections - The Fifties, Mary Bethune
		Mary McLeod Bethune was born on July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina.
		Bethune had an impact on women’s issues in her role as special assistant to the secretary of war, establishing the Women’s Army Corps in 1945.
		Bethune was important in establishing the role of Black women in the effort to participate fully and equally in "the building of an ideal country." She was active in the National Association of Colored Women and founded the National Council of Negro Women.
	www.coloredreflections.com /decades/Decade.cfm?Dec=1&Typ=2&Sty=1&SID=11 (136 words)

	Lesson Plan - Mary McLeod Bethune
		Mary had to walk five miles one way to a poorly equipped school, yet that never stopped her from learning reading,writing, arithmetic, and new songs.
		Mary rummaged through garbage dumps, begged for, and collected crates, lumber, old furniture, lamps, washtubs, broken mirrors, dishes, nails, coins,charcoal, and anything else she could get her hands on for supplies.
		Mary McLeod Bethune was not only a wonderful educator, but she was a great organizer and political activist.
	teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/mbethune.html (1977 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune - Photos and primary source documents.
		Contrasts aan interview with Mary McLeod Bethune, and draft of planned biography to discuss primary and secondary sources.
		Bethune was active in the fight against racism and served as an unofficial advisor to President Roosevelt.
		Bethune in the summer of 1946 though the biography was never completed.
	www.floridamemory.com /OnlineClassroom/MaryBethune/index.cfm (185 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune
		Mary Mcleod Bethune, a woman who has fought for children of her color, fl children, who want to learn and get a good job when they get older.
		Mary: I think my greatest accomplishment was that I created an all fl school, so that Blacks would be allowed to go to school.
		Mary McLeod Bethune died on May 18, 1955, of a heart attack.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0112391/mary_mcleod_bethune.htm (823 words)

	AA World . Reference Room . Articles . Mary Mcleod Bethune \| PBS
		Mary McLeod was the daughter of former slaves.
		In 1904 Bethune moved to the east coast of Florida, where a large African American population had grown up at the time of the construction of the Florida East Coast Railway, and in Daytona Beach, in October, she opened a school of her own, the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls.
		Bethune remained president of the college until 1942 and again from 1946 to 1947.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/mary_mcleod_bethune.html (329 words)

	Mary Jane McLeod Bethune: White House Dream Team
		Mary was determined to provide educational opportunities for African-American students.
		Mary became an active voice on behalf of both women and African Americans.
		Mary died on May 18, 1955 and 30 years later, she was honored with a postage stamp in her name.
	www.whitehouse.gov /kids/dreamteam/marybethune.html (331 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bethune College merged with Cookman College to become Bethune-Cookman College, which is still in existence today.
		Bethune the director of the Negro Affairs Division of the National Youth Administration.
		Bethune was also an American delegate to the first United Nations conference.
	www.csusm.edu /Black_Excellence/documents/pg-bethune.html (217 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mary McLeod Bethune, the fifteenth of seventeenth children, was born in Mayesville, South Carolina, on 10th July, 1875.
		A member of the NAACP, Bethune defied Jim Crow customs and all seating in her schools were desegregated.
		Bethune was also president of the National Association of Colored Women (1924 to 1928) and in 1935 established the National Council of Negro Women.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAbethune.htm (443 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune Biography (Educator/Activist) — FactMonster.com
		Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator and school founder who served as an unofficial advisor on African-American issues to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
		Born to parents who had grown up as slaves, Mary was the only one of 17 children in her family to go to school.
		In 1935 she founded the National Council for Negro Women, and in 1936 she was appointed by President Roosevelt as the director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration, a post she held until 1943, when she returned to her school in Daytona Beach.
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/marymcleodbethune.html (368 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site - Photos & Multimedia (U.S. National Park Service)
		We are using technology new to the Bethune Council House, and we are still learning how to use it, but wish to show you what we have done so far.
		In 1949, President Harry S Truman appointed Mary McLeod Bethune as a United States Representative to the second inauguration of President William V. Tubman of Liberia, West Africa.
		She was awarded Liberia's most prestigious award, the Commander of the Order of the Star of Africa.
	www.nps.gov /mamc/photosmultimedia (132 words)

	Historical Perspectives for Children \| School Assembly Programs on Historical Role Models (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And, when taunted by others on her way to school, she was taught to fight back with "words and reasoning, not stones and fists," a lesson she would never forget.
		After graduating, she moved to Daytona Beach, FL and opened "The School." All were welcome to "Enter to Learn, Depart to Serve." No matter the supplies were few and the surroundings sparse, children were learning to read, to write and to believe in their abilities.
		Mary's inspiring story teaches the importance of reading and education as well as the power of conflict resolution.
	www.wideopenwest.com /~HPC/bethune.html (337 words)

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