Mary McLeod Bethune was an activist and educator who fought tirelessly for women and Black Americans. Now, she's being honored at the Capitol's National Statuary Hall.
Portrait of American educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune with the United States Capitol Building in the background.
Bethune was born in South Carolina to formerly-enslaved people in 1875 and worked on her family’s cotton farm before attending schools in North Carolina and Illinois. She then became an educator herself in South Carolina and eventually Florida. She opened a boarding school in Daytona Beach called the Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in 1904.
“She faced a lot of Ku Klux Klan and everything else as she was doing that,” John says. “But she stood her ground, so to speak. She changed the lives of many, and she continues to change the lives of many.”
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