07.10.1875 - Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune

Dr Mary McLeod Bethune was born on 10.July.1875. Although born to parents who were formerly enslaved, Mary rose high to become one the most important Black educators, civil and Women's rights leaders of the twentieth century. Mary started the Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls, eventually merging with Cookman Institute to form Bethune-Cookman College in 1929. Mary was a trusted advisor to both Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. President Roosevelt appointed Mary as the Director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration in 1936. In 1940, Mary was named the Vice President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP), a position she held for the rest of her life. Teach on!