Mary Jane Mcleod: Educator And Civil Rights Activist

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Mary Jane Mcleod was born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was a great educator and civil rights activist. Mary Mcleod Bethune was the only member of her family to go to school. She later earned a scholarship to the Scotia Seminary in North Carolina. She then started her lifelong career as a teacher. Bethune later became the creator of the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls in Daytona, Florida, in 1904. She turned a school of only five students to more than two hundred and fifty. In 1923, the school was now for men and women and it was then known as Bethune-Cookman College. It was one of the very few places that blacks could obtain a college degree. Along with be a well renowned educator, she was the

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