Mary McLeod Bethune: Born the daughter of slaves, died a retired college president
Mary McLeod Bethune overcame all odds to found a school to educate black people at a time of division and segregation in ...
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Mary McLeod Bethune: Born the daughter of slaves, died a retired college president
Moore: Civil rights pioneer led 1000s of black Floridians to vote Mary McLeod Bethune taught black girls they could be more Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, in 1875, Mary McCleod was the 15th ...
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Eleanor and Mary McLeod Bethune
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs ... had been enslaved on the McIntosh and McLeod plantations in Maysville, South Carolina, a "country town in the midst of rice and cotton ...
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Mary McLeod Bethune: Born the daughter of slaves, died a retired college president
Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, in 1875 ... who works for the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation. “The room once had a door but secret service had to take the door down because they had to ...
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Post-World War II era set the stage for the development of the Florida we all know today
And you bet Mary McLeod Bethune would be there ... More than a million Cubans would flee Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, with South Florida becoming home to the vast majority of those exiles ...
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U.S. Civil Rights Trail Expands in 2025 With Destination DC Partnership and New Historic Sites
Along with the Destination DC partnership comes a new D.C. addition to the trail: The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House ... of history across the American South and beyond. The official Washington ...
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Mary McLeod Bethune: A ‘Potent, Ebullient, Unreal’ Champion of Education and Equity
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