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	Mary McLeod Bethune - Photos and primary source documents. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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 (185 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mary Jane McLeod Bethune has left her mark indelibly printed upon the walls of time as an outstanding educator, a giant of race relations, advisor to U.S. presidents, and the first Black woman in the United States to establish a school that became a four-year accredited college.
		Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, the daughter of slaves, has many achievements to her credit and was the recipient of may awards.
		Bethune left a legacy to her people, that her philosophy of living and serving would be inspirational to those who share her vision of a world peace.
	www.toptags.com /aama/bio/women/mbethune.htm (608 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune
		Mary McLeod Bethune was born Mary Jane McLeod on July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina to Samuel and Patsy McIntosh McLeod, former slaves.
		Mary McLeod Bethune was active in the fight against racism and served under several Presidents as a member of the unofficial African American "brain trust." In 1936 she was appointed by President Roosevelt as the director of the National Youth Administration's Division of Negro Affairs.
		Thirty years later in 1985, Bethune was recognized as one of the most influential Afro-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.
	www.dejaelaine.com /mmb.html (732 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)

	The legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune
		Mary McLeod Bethune became the first woman of any race to be memorialized by a portrait hanging in the State House of South Carolina in 1976.
		Around the McLeod household in Mayesville, the reality of God was accepted uncritically and Mary Jane McLeod, as she was christened, recognized by age 8 the value of believing and trusting unequivocally in a sovereign power.
		Bethune did nothing more than persevere in what she knew was right, but in the process, she became a national symbol of what robust faith could do.
	www.eclecticcooking.com /LegacyMaryMcLeodBethune.htm (1496 words)

	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)

	Mary McLeod Bethune: Race woman New Crisis, The - Find Articles
		Bethune was certainly a pivotal member of this group as her efforts advanced equal opportunity for fl Americans on all levels for nearly half a century.
		Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, the fifteenth of seventeen children born to Samuel and Patsy McLeod.
		Mary McLeod Bethune's visibility in the New Deal as head of the Office of Minority Affairs in the National Youth Administration (the first federal ofice created for a fl woman) illustrates both the continuity of fl women's political activisim and the changing opportunities for fl women leaders.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3812/is_200303/ai_n9229137 (892 words)

	Mary Mcleod Bethune Biography
		Mary McLeod Bethune, an African American teacher, was one of the great educators in United States history.
		Mary McLeod was born in Mayesville, South Carolina.
		Bethune's business activities were confined to the Central Life Insurance Company of Tampa, Florida, 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.notablebiographies.com /Be-Br/Bethune-Mary-Mcleod.html (951 words)

	Floridian: Mary McLeod Bethune, 1875-1955, Educator and activist
		Robust and stately, Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was a dedicated educator and sophisticated lobbyist who flouted the rules of race in the early 1900s and helped generations of fl Americans see new possibilities for their lives.
		Bethune, who believed she needed white people's support to help fl people advance, created biracial advisory boards at the college and invited white beachside residents to sit wherever they wanted when they came for meetings.
		Bethune left, as she said in her most famous speech, a legacy of love, hope and thirst for knowledge.
	www.sptimes.com /News/112899/Floridian/Mary_McLeod_Bethune__.shtml (456 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 (1056 words)

	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.
		Bethune worked for the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, and attempted to get him to support a proposed law against lynching.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_McLeod_Bethune (203 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune Summary
		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.
		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).
		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)

	DCSS: Mary McLeod Bethune Middle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bethune Middle School was named after the famous teacher and humanitarian who saw education as the key to improving the lives of young African-Americans, especially young women, nearly a century ago.
		Mary McLeod Bethune Middle School is a school focused on academic achievement and the social, emotional, and physical well being of its children.
		Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 and died in 1955.
	www.dekalb.k12.ga.us /schools/middle/bethune (900 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 /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761560533 (182 words)

	Commemorative Chairs: Mary McLeod Bethune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mary McLeod Bethune became a public leader in the second decade of the twentieth century.
		Bethune's increasing involvement in national conferences on education, child welfare, and home ownership, as well as her reputation as a moving spirit in the fl women's club movement brought her into contact with a widening circle of influential people, which included the Roosevelts.
		Bethune, through her service to the National Youth Administration, began important relationships with other powerful civil and women's rights advocates, including William Hastie and Robert Weaver of the Department of the Interior, as well as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
	www.feri.org /kiosk/profile.cfm?QID=2734 (636 words)

	Legendary Women of Causes--Mary Jane McLeod Bethune
		Mary Jane McLeod was born on 10 July 1875 of two former slaves, near Maysville, South Carolina.
		Bethune was elected president of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, which she served for four years.
		Bethune were sent to San Francisco by President Harry S. Truman as consultants to the organizing meeting of the United Nations.
	causes.goldenmoon.org /legends/marymcleodbethune.html (613 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site - Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site ...
		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 (300 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)

	Guide Introduction: Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mary McLeod Bethune's two-story, white frame residence, a cross between a bungalow and a colonial, appears modest for a popular national leader of color, or at least when compared to Booker T. Washington's "The Oaks" in Tuskegee or Frederick Douglass's "Cedar Hill" in Washington, D.C. Adjacent to Bethune-Cookman College (BCC), "The Retreat," Mrs.
		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.
		Bethune called her home "sacred" in "My Foundation" and in a draft typescript column, "Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation Is Born," Florence L. Roane Papers, a private collection used through the courtesy of Dr.
	lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/african_american/bethune/bethune1.asp (5954 words)

	Bethune, Mary McLeod - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mary McLeod Bethune: A Visionary Educator And Institution Builder
		Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World: Essays and Selected Documents.
		Mary McLeod Bethune Institute Established At Her College in Daytona Beach.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bethunem1.html (311 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune
		Equal parts educator, politician, and social visionary, Mary McLeod Bethune was one of the most prominent African American women of the first half of the twentieth century—and one of the most powerful.
		Between 1936 and 1944 Bethune was director of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Administration (NYA) and chair of an informal Black Cabinet, a group of federally appointed fl officials who met regularly to plan strategy and set fl priorities for social change.
		ER valued Bethune's political acumen and dynamic personality and was instrumental in bringing her to Washington and into the NYA.
	www.nps.gov /elro/glossary/bethune-mary.htm (769 words)

	Guide Introduction: Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune-Cookman College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
	lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/african_american/bethune/bethune.htm (6566 words)

	Mary McLeod Bethune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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)

	WHJ-Mary McLeod Bethune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955) was one of seventeen children born to slave parents in Mayesville, South Carolina.
		Although it was very hard for her to part from her family, Bethune left home at the age of eleven to attend school at the Scotia Seminary, where she developed an interest in missionary work.
		Bethune's institute merged with the nearby Cookman Institute in 1923, becoming Bethune-Cookman College.
	americanart.si.edu /education/johnson/bethune.html (150 words)

	The American Experience \| Eleanor Roosevelt \| People & Events \| Mary McLeod Bethune
		Both her mother and father, Patsy and Samuel McLeod, had been slaves on the McIntosh and McLeod plantations in Maysville, South Carolina, a "country town in the midst of rice and cotton fields." After gaining her freedom, Patsy McLeod found herself still financially tied to her former master.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande05.html (1071 words)

	Guide Introduction: Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mary McLeod Bethune's two-story, white frame residence, a cross between a bungalow and a colonial, appears modest for a popular national leader of color, or at least when compared to Booker T. Washington's "The Oaks" in Tuskegee or Frederick Douglass's "Cedar Hill" in Washington, D.C. Adjacent to Bethune-Cookman College (BCC), "The Retreat," Mrs.
		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.
		Bethune called her home "sacred" in "My Foundation" and in a draft typescript column, "Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation Is Born," Florence L. Roane Papers, a private collection used through the courtesy of Dr.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/african_american/bethune/bethune1.htm (5954 words)

	Mary McCloud Bethune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mary completed the two year program, planning to go to Africa as a missionary, but was told that there were no open positions available at that time for African-Americans.
		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.
	www.usca.edu /aasc/bethune.htm (2168 words)

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