Mary mcleod bethune autobiography
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Top image: Bethune and the Capital. Photo artighet of Daytona Times.
In his autobiography, titled I Wonder as inom Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalled being invited bygd Mary Bethune to give a reading at Bethune-Cookman College in After the event, Bethune hitched a ride with the ung poet back to New York City. In the time of Jim Crow, where Black travelers were required to carry an Automobile Blue Book that listed the way stops in which African Americans were allowed to stop for meals, restrooms, or for sleeping accommodations, Hughes noted that Bethune avoided much of the indignity of segregated facilities along the long road to New York. He said, “Colored people along the eastern seaboard spread a feast and opened their homes wherever Mrs. Bethune passed their way.” In fact, he continued, “chickens, sensing that she was coming, went flying off frantically seeking a hiding place. They knew a heaping platter of southern fried chicken would be made in her honor.”
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The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, 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 Roosevelt gave African Americans an advocate in government.
Born on July 10, near Maysville, South Carolina, Bethune was one of the last of Samuel and Patsy McLeod’s seventeen children. After the Civil War, her mother worked for her former owner until she could buy the land on which the family grew cotton. By age nine, Bethune could pick pounds of cotton a day.
Bethune benefited from efforts to educate African Americans after the war, graduating in from the Scotia Seminary, a boarding school in North Carolina. Bethune next attended Dwight Moody’s Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago, Illinois. But with no church willing to sponsor her
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Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator and civil rights leader (–)
For other people named Mary Bethune, see Mary Bethune (disambiguation).
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| Born | Mary Jane McLeod ()July 10, Mayesville, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | May 18, () (aged&#;79) Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S. |
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| Spouse | Albertus Bethune &#; &#; (m.&#;; sep.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 1 |
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née&#;McLeod; July 10, – May 18, [1]) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in , established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided over myriad African-American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division.
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