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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (Fotografata da Carl Van Vechten il 6 aprile 1949). Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (Mayesville, 10 luglio 1875 – Daytona Beach, 18 maggio 1955) è stata un'educatrice e imprenditrice statunitense, leader dei diritti civili e nota per la creazione di una scuola per studenti afroamericani a Daytona Beach (Florida), che poi diventò la Bethune-Cookman University e per essere ...
1875-1955. The daughter of former slaves, Mary Jane McLeod Bethune became one of the most important black educators, civil and women’s rights leaders and government officials of the twentieth century. The college she founded set educational standards for today’s black colleges, and her role as an advisor to President Franklin Delano ...
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. Bethune-Cookman University’s founder, Mary McLeod Bethune, is one of America’s most inspirational daughters. Educator. National civil rights pioneer and activist. Champion of African American women’s rights and advancement. Advisor to Presidents of the United States. The first in her family not to be born into ...
19 de jan. de 2007 · Mary McLeod Bethune died of a heart attack on May 18, 1955, at the age of 79. She lived long enough to see the US Supreme Court strike down de jure school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, but she died seven months before the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ushered in the modern Civil Rights Movement.
14 de fev. de 2011 · Os Estados Unidos relembram neste mês o legado na história de luta pelos direitos dos negros deixado por Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), que, mesmo tendo sido filha de escravos, chegou a ser ...
Mary McLeod Bethune was born in Mayesville, South Carolina, on July 10, 1875. She was the fifteenth of seventeen children born to parents, who, along with eight of her older siblings, had been enslaved. Despite their financial struggles, the family purchased five acres of land from their former master, and their fortunes improved.
2 de jun. de 2023 · Mary McLeod Bethune and President Franklin D. Roosevelt with others in the Oval Office at the White House . NPS / NABWH. Decades before an African American woman would be nominated on a major political party's presidential ticket, Mary McLeod Bethune was working to give African Americans a place in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government.
