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  Mary McLeod Bethune - Definition, explanation
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 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.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/ma/mary_mcleod_bethune.php   (1085 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Abbott drafted a charter for the Canada Pacific Railway, arranged for its incorporation, was named a provisional director, and left with Allan for London in late February 1873 to float bonds for its construction.
Abbott realized, and even exaggerated, his own limitations, and never ceased explaining to anyone who would listen that he had been chosen leader of his party simply because he was the man who divided it least.
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott is the author of The Argenteuil case; being a report of the controverted election for the county of Argenteuil.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40043   (3692 words)

  
 Abbott-Biography-First Among Equals
Abbott was born in St. Andrews, Quebec, in 1821, and educated by his father, an Anglican missionary.
By this time, Abbott was the M.P. for Argenteuil, and his involvement with both the CPR and the government led to a conflict of interest.
Abbott lost his seat in parliament in 1874 as a result of the scandal, but was re-elected in a by-election in 1881.
www.collectionscanada.ca /primeministers/h4-3081-e.html   (767 words)

  
 The Honourable Sir John J. C. Abbott
Film and theatre actor, Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Music) is a descendant of John Abbott.
Failing health forced Abbott to resign in November, 1892.
Abbott was the first Prime Minister to lead the country from the Senate.
www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/abbott.htm   (247 words)

  
 Mary McLeod Bethune Summary
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'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 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.
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 Abbott, Sir John Joseph Caldwell. FREE Quality Information on Abbott, Sir John Joseph Caldwell and much more!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Abbott became prime minister at the age of 70 and resigned because of poor health.
Abbott served as dean of the law school at McGill from 1855 to 1880.
Abbott's political career began in 1857 when, as a Liberal, he ran for election from Argenteuil County to the legislative assembly of the Province of Canada...
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 Mary McLeod Bethune information - Search.com
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 Jane McLeod was born in Mayesville, South Carolina.
In 1924, Bethune became president of the National Association of Colored Women, at that time the highest national office a fl woman could aspire.
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 90.03.09: Famous Afro-Americans Historical Sites Recognized by the National Park System
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site was the Washington, D.C., home of the famed educator organizer from 1943 until her death in 1955.
Bethune was born in 1875 in Mayesville, in rural South Carolina, to parents who had been slaves.
Mary McLeod Bethune is honored, also, by a 17-foot bronze statue in Lincoln Park, east of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. The work of sculptor Robert Berks, it depicts the renowned educator leaving her legacy to a boy and girl.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1990/3/90.03.09.x.html   (5709 words)

  
 International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
George VI, born December 14, 1895, was the second son of George V and Mary of Teck.
Edward VIII, eldest son of George V and Mary of Teck, was born June 23, 1894.
Abbott was a legal advisor to Sir Hugh Allan, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and helped him secure the contract and funding for Macdonald's ambitious railway construction.
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 Mary McLeod Bethune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 - May 18, 1955) was born in Mayesville, South Carolina and died in Daytona Beach, Florida.
A U.S. educator born to former slaves, she made her way through college and in 1904 founded a school that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla. She was president of the college from 1923–42 and 1946–47.
Her house is preserved by the National Park Service as Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_McLeod_Bethune   (202 words)

  
 Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott biography - S9.com
At the same time he read law with William Collis Meredith and Strachan Bethune (his future brother-in-law).
His contribution are: reformed the civil service; revised the criminal code and signed a reciprocity treaty with the United States.
1893 - Abbott died less than a year later at the age of 72 on October 30, 1893.
www.s9.com /Biography/Abbott-John-Joseph-Caldwell-Sir   (379 words)

  
 Manuscript Resources for Women's Studies
She describes her activities as a teacher, the impact on her and other townspeople when Union troops burned Bolivar in the fall of 1862, rumors of conditions in Vicksburg, and attitudes toward international sympathy for the Southern cause.
Vincenheller, Mary Virginia Vincenheller Byroade, and Margaret Seals (who was a prisoner of war in the Phillipines during World War II).
One scrapbook pertains to the kindergarten established and operated by Marie Antoinette Purkins (born 1883) from 1938 to 1962.
libinfo.uark.edu /specialcollections/manuscripts/womensstudies.asp   (9942 words)

  
 Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins, African American Pianist
James Bethune protected himself against the possiblity of a Union victory in the Civil War by convincing Mingo and Charity Wiggins to sign an indenture agreement for Tom's services, on May 30, 1864, for a period of five years.
Inasmuch as the guardianship agreement permitted the Bethunes to receive ninety percent of Tom's earnings with nothing to guarantee that they would not expropriate the ten percent promised to Tom and his parents, the trial offered one more example of how ex-slave owners were able to re-enslave their slaves, the Emancipation Proclamation notwithstanding.
Obviously the Bethunes had decided to retain the characterization of Tom as an "idiot" whose "incomprehensible creative and retentive powers" were the result of some "unexplained satanic gifts" as a promotional gimmick.
chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com /Wiggins.html   (4688 words)

  
 Oil Paintings Arts Plaza Masterpiece Reproduction
James Abbott McNeill Whistler Rose and Silver The Princess from the Land of Porcelain Oil Paintings
James Abbott McNeill Whistler Arrangement in Black The Lady in the Yellow Buskin Portrait of Lady Archibald Campbell Oil Paintings
James Abbott McNeill Whistler Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Brown Portrait of Arthur J Eddy Oil Paintings
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 05202002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mary Emma Springs Ragland of 1102 Cole Street, South Boston died Wednesday, May 15 at her home at the age of 78.
Born in Charlotte, NC on December 23, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Mr.
The family of Mary "Queenie" Seay would like to thank everyone for the prayers, cards, flowers, visits and all acts of kindness shown during their time of grief.
www.thenewsrecord.com /archives/2002/05202002.htm   (4193 words)

  
 CanadaInfo: Government: Federal: Prime Minister: Former Prime Ministers: Abbott
By this time, Abbott was the M.P for Argenteuil, and his involvement with both the CPR and the goverment led to a conflict of interest.
This was a document drawn up by a group of Monteal businessman, advocating that the Canadian colonies relinquish their ties with Britian and join the United States.
hough reluctant to accept the office of prime minister, Abbott proved himself to be a capable leader, despite the Langevin scandal exposed during his term.
www.craigmarlatt.com /canada/government/abbott.html   (811 words)

  
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The team-building platform will be used as part of the YMCA's Juvenile Detention Alternative Program, in which from 10 to 20 teens participate in a 12-week afterschool program as the alternative to being placed in juvenile detention.
YMCA executive director Mary Jo Boone said the work accomplished on the Day of Caring saves the thousands of dollars that would have been spent had the work otherwise been contracted out.
She said team building is an important part of the at-risk teen program and the new trust-fall will further that program's efforts.
www.bedfordbulletin.com /articles/2006/06/01/news/news10.txt   (512 words)

  
 Abbott Memorial Collection
Jacob Abbott: essays, journals, manuscripts, etc., 1823-79, n.d.
"Abbott's Collegiate Institution, 1852-54,"includes accounts of land sales in Byron, Weld, Phillips, Madrid, etc., a meteorological journal, and a mss.
Lyman Abbott: notebooks, journals, clippings, etc., 1859-1922, n.d.
library.bowdoin.edu /arch/mss/amccl.shtml   (725 words)

  
 ALIC - Pathfinder for Women's History Research
Z7964.U49 K7 Lerner, Gerda and Marie Laberge, Women are History: A Bibliography in the History of American Women, Madison: Graduate Program in Women's History, Dept. of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986.
Abbott, Edith, Women in Industry: a Study in American Economic History, New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1910.
Includes Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Bethune Museum, Smith College, Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, Texas Women's University Library, and the University of Waterloo Library.
www.archives.gov /research/alic/reference/women.html   (5648 words)

  
 AC
Abbott (1870-1940) received a law degree in 1899 and founded the Chicago Daily
Mary McLeod Bethune - 3030 W. Arthington St.
Bethune (1875-1955) founded Bethune-Cookman College in Florida and was of
cuip.uchicago.edu /~vjordan/ac.html   (442 words)

  
 American Women Through Time: 1930-1939
Ella Fitzgerald, highlights the audition for the contest and other key events in her career.
Profile of Berenice Abbott [National Public Radio] offers a brief overview of the Changing New York exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
The National Council of Negro Women is founded by Mary McLeod Bethune.
www.mtsu.edu /~kmiddlet/history/women/time/wh-1930s.html   (1109 words)

  
 CGHL - Personal Ontario
Kirkwood Genealogy Descendants of Alexander Kirkwood, son of Thomas Kirkwood and Mary Ann McClain, who emigrated to Canada from Ireland.
Renaud's Home Page Dedicated to the study of the French-Canadian name Renaud and is being authored by descendents of different children of Guillaume Renaud and Marie De La Mare (married 1668 Quebec).
Wayne Cook's Ancestors and Descendants Abbott, Boyle, Bradley, Burdick, Clark, Cook, Leggett, Maguire, May, Milbury, Neeley, Penny, Usher, Rushlow, Shaw, Thompson, and Towle.
www.islandnet.com /~jveinot/cghl/personal-on.html   (3560 words)

  
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Mary Ann Getty, R.S.M. FIRST and SECOND CORINTHIANS #8
THE DOCUMENTS OF VATICAN II Walter M. Abbott, S.J. Fr.
THE LIFE OF MARY AS SEEN BY THE MYSTICS
www.stjosephmanteno.com /liblist.html   (689 words)

  
 Women Reformers and Activists
Jones, Mary Harris, American labor agitator, called Mother Jones
Lease, Mary Elizabeth, American agrarian reformer and temperance advocate
Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy, philanthropist, mental health activist
www.factmonster.com /spot/whmbios3.html   (395 words)

  
 History Department at UIC
Gendered Boundaries and Race Leadership: Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) and the New Deal.
John Abbott, “Peasants in the Rural Public: The Bavarian Bauernbund, 1893-1933” (2000)
Mary Todd, "Not in God's Lifetime": The Question of the Ordination of Women in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod"
www.uic.edu /depts/hist/graduateXI.html   (2528 words)

  
 Black History Month Women (Biographies), page 2
Mary Ann Shadd Cary : The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century by Jane Rhodes
Mary Church Terrell : Leader for Equality by Pat McKissack et al.
Mary Church Terrell : Leader for Equality by Pat McKissack, Ned O. (Illustrator), Patrici McKissack, Ned Ostendorf (Illustrator), Fredrick L. McKissack (Contributor)
www.distinguishedwomen.com /subject/bh2.html   (1118 words)

  
 Social Security Online History Pages
Mary Bethune used to come and stay at our house and when different colored people would come and make speeches they would always come and stay at our house when they couldn't stay at hotels.
And we had the same maid for 26 years and she was just as close to me really as my mother was.
Grace Abbott was head of the Children's Bureau.
www.ssa.gov /history/fbane.html   (19401 words)

  
 SMILE PROGRAM PHYSICS INDEX
Electricity by Marie McCadd - Coles Elementary School
Probability by Mary J. Holder - Sherwood Elementary School
View Tube Triangulation by Pete Insley - Jones Metropolitan H. Models of the Earth and the Moon by Anne Chamberlain - Bethune Elementary School
www.iit.edu /~smile/physinde.html   (2683 words)

  
 Film Guide - State Archives of Florida
There is an overview of the school and its individual departments, including interviews with: Richard Moore (President); Dr. Rabie J. Gainous (Department of Science and Mathematics); Herine Banks (Dean of Women); and Edward Rodriquez (Administrator of the Mary Bethune Foundation).
Students express their views and ambitions throughout the film.  The apparent purpose for the production of this film was to obtain additional funding for the school.
Adderley comments on Julian “Cannonball” Adderley’s inclusion in the archives.  A former FAMU athlete donates the Cleve Abbott Award of 1963 to the archives.
fpc.dos.state.fl.us /memory/PhotographicCollection/filmguide.cfm   (13712 words)

  
 Famous Foreign Masons
George VI George VI, born December 14, 1895, was the second son of George V and Mary of Teck.
Simpson, abdicating the throne after reigning a scant eleven months.
caucuses, and everything that I know of that is apparently the necessary incident of politics- except doing public work to the best of my ability" Sir John J.C Abbott, June4, 1891
www.members.tripod.com /Edward_Weigert/famous_foreign_masons.htm   (9978 words)

  
 Lauder of Fountainhall
He is mentioned in a letter to John, Abbott of Newbattle in July 1401 but was dead by March 1407 when his son Robert was his executor.
Foot Regiment between 1734 and 1744 as a military surgeon and was later personal physician to the philosopher David Hume and through him was introduced to Dr.Samuel Johnson, the diarist.
April 1751 at Congalton, East Lothian, leaving a son, William Congalton of that Ilk, who married Mary Bethune, of Balfour, Fife, with issue: ten children;
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 Northeastobits.com
Brendley, Mary J. Brendley Sr., William H. Brennan, Joseph
Cramer, Paul I. Crane, Mary H. Crane, Sr, Robert M. Craner, Furman
Forte, Joseph A. Foster, Sandra A. Fowler, Marie C. Fowler, Ruth F. Fowler, Francis A. "Frank"
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