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Mary McLeod Bethune is born
Mary was the doughter of two former slaves and grew up in poverty and every one in her family worked in feelds picking cotton.
She later became the first (and only) out of her 17 siblings to atend school when a school for african american children opend up a few miles from her house. -
Mary graduates from the Scotia Seminary and goes on to become a teacher
Mary receved a scholorship for the Scotia Seminary (is now known as Barber-Scotia College) which was a only grils school in North Carolina and later graduated from the school.
After she graduates she goes to Dwight Moody's Institute for Home and Foreign Missions. After she graduates she goes to the South to become a teacher. -
Mary creates the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls
Mary beleved that education provided the key to racial advancement and created the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls. They only started out with 5 students but over the years it grew to about 250 students.
Eventualy the school had merged with a mens school and became Bethune-Cookman College and was one of the few places that African Americans could get a digree. She ended up leaving the school in 1942 -
National leader of National Association of Colored Women
After serving the president of the Florida chapter of the National Association of Colored Women for a while Mary became the National leader of the groupe. -
Mary becomes a Special Adviser to the President
In 1935 Mary becomes the special adviser to President Roosevelt on minority affairs and around the same time, she creates the National Council of Negro Women. -
Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration
In 1936 Mary -
Moves to D.C.
Mary moves to D.C. so she could be at the new National Council of Negro Women headquarters and in 1945 became an early member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Mary dies in Daytona, Florida