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She live in montogomery,alabama with her family mary anne colvin her mother,c.p. colvin her father, and her sister velma colvin.Claudette colvin got her education in washington high school
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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, April 6, 1949

Born

 | Mary Jane McLeod
July 10, 1875
Mayesville, South Carolina, U.S.

Died

 | May 18, 1955(aged 79)
Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.

Occupation

 | Educator, Author, and African American Civil Rights Leader

Spouse(s)

 | Albertus Bethune, m. 1898, died 1918

Children

 | 1

Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, to parents who had been slaves, she started working in fields with her family at age five. She took an early interest in becoming educated; with the help of benefactors, Bethune attended college hoping to become a missionary in Africa. She started a school for African-American girls in Daytona Beach, Florida. It later merged with a private institute for African-American boys, and was known as the Bethune-Cookman School. Bethune maintained high standards and promoted the school with tourists and donors, to demonstrate what educated African Americans could do. She was president of the college from 1923 to 1942, and 1946 to 1947. She was one of the few women in the world to serve as a college president at that time.

Bethune was also active in women's clubs, which were strong civic organizations supporting welfare and other needs, and became a national leader. After working on the presidential campaign for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, she was invited as a member of his Black Cabinet. She advised him on concerns of black people and helped share Roosevelt's message and achievements with blacks, who had historically been Republican voters since the Civil War. At the time, blacks had been largely disenfranchised in the South since the turn of the century, so she was speaking to black voters across the North. Upon her death, columnist Louis E. Martin said, "She gave out faith and hope as if they were pills and she some sort of doctor."^[2]

Honors include designation of her home in Daytona Beach as a National Historic Landmark,^[3] her house in Washington, D.C. as a National Historic Site,^[4] and the installation of a memorial sculpture of her in Lincoln Parkin Washington, D.C.^[5] The Legislature of Florida is expected to designate her in 2018 as the subject of one of Florida's two statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection. ^[6]

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